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Green Accounting Bibliography: November 1995

This page contains all items published in the selected month. January archives also include entries for the entire year when the exact month of publication is unknown. The page for January 1990 includes everything published prior to that year.

Citations

U.S. Congress, House Report Accompanying HR 4603, U.S. Department of Commerce, FY 1995, Public Law 103-317, Washington, D.C. (1995).

Congressional report to the 1995 appropriations bill including a passage stopping BEA's green accounting efforts:

The Committee has not provided funds under this account for the "Green GDP" initiative. [...] The Committee is concerned about the Administrations initiative on "Green GDP" or "Integrated Environmental-Economic Accounting", which seeks to provide a measurement of the contribution of natural resources to the Nations economy. The Committee recognizes that there may be value to the measurements proposed to be taken under this initiative, but has concerns as to whether the Department has adequately addressed the questions of appropriate methodology and proposed applications of the data in developing this initiative. The Committee expects the Department to suspend its work on this initiative until a more thorough analysis of the proposed methodology and applications of Green GDP can be undertaken by an independent entity. The Committee has included $400,000 under this account to allow the Department to enter into a contract to carry out this evaluation, and expects the Department to report back to the Committee by July 30, 1994 on its plans to carry out this recommendation.

Subsequently, the Department of Commerce instructed the National Academy of Sciences to review BEA's green accounting activities, resulting in the publication of Nature's Numbers.

Posted by Gernot Wagner on 11/01/1995. 0 comments. Permanent link.