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Green GDP Accounting Study Report 2004 issued [China]
"China Green National Accounting Study Report 2004" was issued jointly...by the State Environmental Protection Administration of China (SEPA) and the National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS) on Sept. 08, 2006...The preliminary results show that economic loss caused by environmental pollution reaches 511.8 billion yuan, accounting for 3.05% of national GDP in 2004 while imputed treatment cost is 287.4 billion yuan, accounting for 1.80% of that...The Green GDP Accounting Research Project...conducted accounting analysis on physical quantification of environmental pollution, imputed treatment cost and environmental degradation cost for 42 industries and 3 regions of the East, the Central and the West China...On the whole, this accounting result is only a fraction of ultimate green GDP calculation result...Nearly 30% of key industrial pollution enterprises, all the sewage plants, garbage treatment plants, big livestock and poultry breeding farms and 30,000 households were surveyed in the 10 provinces and cities.