China’s Green GDP accounting team faces the risk of being disbanded in coming weeks unless seniors leaders step in to save their stalled experiment, a high-level source close to the State Environmental Protection Administration tells CDT. Team auditors hope to get word soon from heads of the State Council about their future. “But our only […]
Read MoreMa 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 […]
Read MoreA week ago, domestic newspapers broke the news that the National Statistics Bureau is balking on plans to publicize China’s second Green GDP report. This was not altogether shocking, since the country’s first estimates of the costs of environmental degradation, based on 2004 data, only came out in September 2006 – after much delay, cutting, […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily: Green GDP accounting – which takes into account the impact of environmental degradation on the economy – has hit a snag, a source with the environmental watchdog said. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has asked the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) not to release the latest results of Green GDP to […]
Read MoreIt’s been hard not to catch a whiff of foul politicking behind China’s first-ever Green GDP Report, which emerged earlier this month. The environmental regulator (SEPA) and State Statistics Bureau officially set to work on the index, designed to count the cost of pollution and resource mismanagement to economic productivity, in early 2004. Yet as […]
Read MoreVia the China Environmental News Digest blog: China will not issue the statistical index assessing the “Green GDP” in the near future, a Chinese government official said. As most of the items used to assess green GDP are untradable, it is difficult for those indices to be formulated, the China Securities Journal quoted a senior […]
Read MoreFrom 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 […]
Read MoreFrom Inter Press Service, via Asia Times: Increasingly aware of the deteriorating state of China’s environment, the Chinese leadership has decided that it wants the national economy to not only grow fast, but grow green. They have asked state planners to develop a new indicator to measure the country’s growth, a “green GDP“, which would […]
Read MoreFrom CRI English: Beijing is attempting to calculate the city’s “green” gross domestic product (GDP), the Beijing News reported Friday. The experiment is scheduled to figure out the “green” GDP of 2004 by the end of next year based on the formula of “conventional GDP minus environmental losses”… The report lists the ten fields that […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: With its annual gross domestic product (GDP) growing by a breakneck 8% on average in the past 25 years, China has emerged as the picture of economic wonder. But its prosperity has come at a heavy cost to its ecology and natural resources. Alarmed by the warnings of green doomsdayers, the […]
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