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Term

green accounting

Term

Systematic presentation of data on environmentally important stocks and flows (e.g. stocks of life-sustaining natural resources, flows of pollutants), accompanying conventional economic accounts (e.g. measures of gross domestic product) with the ultimate objective of providing a comprehensive measure of the environmental consequences of economic activity.

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Source:

EEA Glossary

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Definition source publication

European Commission. Forward Studies Unit. 1999. Scenarios Europe 2010. Five possible futures for Europe. Working paper.

Publication year

1999

Definition source URL

http://glossary.eea.europa.eu/EEAGlossary

Organisation

Organisation full name

European Commission

Subjects

ECONOMICS AND CORPORATE REPORTING

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