With countries now on the path of the 2030 Agebda for Sustainable Dvelopment, the ambit of enviornment statistics needs to cover all components of environmental issues, from extent to quality, adaptation and mitigation measures to governance and regulation, so as to enable formulation of appropriate policies, strategies and programmes. The central statistics Office (CSO) of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has addressed this requirement in EnviStats-India 2018, which highlights that data on various environmental factors as a means to raise awareness and help focus on pivotablity oe environmental concerns