From the Financial Times (link)
Beijing has abandoned plans for a “green measure” of gross domestic product as it battles to restrain growth to protect the environment.
A National Bureau of Statistics official said the introduction of a “green” measure of national economic output, which took account of the effect on the environment, had been dropped.
“It is virtually impossible to calculate accurately a figure for GDP adjusted for the impact on the environment,” said the official.
China’s two decades of near double-digit annual growth have wrought terrible damage on the environment, which has led to growing protests by citizens.
