Ma Jun reports for Chinadialogue that “in today’s China, introducing green GDP calculations may be the cheapest of the practical options to achieve that end. ”
With China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) indicating there is no way green GDP data can be made public, and the report from the main green GDP study group “delayed indefinitely”, it seems three years of efforts may have come to an end. The NBS’s decision, beyond their stated conviction that the calculation methods are undeveloped, is also influenced by the fact that no other country publishes official data of this type….[Full Text]
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