The Green Indian States Trusts enjoyed great success at the 9th Biennial Conference of The International Society For Ecological Economics, Dec 15th-18th 2006, New Delhi. The conference provided an occasion to showcase our work to a large number of academics, policy makers and government officials. Indeed our presentations were incredibly well received and both sessions full to capacity.

GIST has now forged links with United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP (and received a warm recommendation from the Executive Director, Mr. Achim Steiner) and the European Environment Agency (EEA). Prof. Jacqueline McGlade, the Executive Director of the EEA even mentioned GIST in her Plenary Address to the conference. Karl Goran Maler, (head of the Beijer Institute, and an authority on Green Accounting) attended both our sessions, and told us afterwards that our work "was the best empirical study of green accounting that (he) had seen". We also received a letter of support from Prof. Robert Costanza who was the founding member of the International Society for Ecological Economics.

Socially GIST also made an impact co-hosting a dinner for 650 delegates which was a great occasion for networking and raising our profile.

We hope to build on the momentum and exposure created by ISEE 2006 through the next year and have already felt its impact in terms of increased demand for our monographs from academics in India and abroad.