A study on global national green GDP accounting based on the System of Integrated Environmental-Economic Accounting

Abstract

In recent years, green GDP has been widely used but not precisely defined, and the measurement methods are mostly vague and confusing. In order to accurately account for global green GDP, this paper adopts the latest international standard system, the system of integrated Environmental-Economic Accounting: a central framework (SEEA-2012), to construct a model of global GGDP accounting system. Based on SEEA-2012, the global green GDP accounting system is established, which takes into account the negative impacts caused by the depletion of natural resources and losses due to environmental pollution, as well as the positive impacts caused by the improvement of resources and environment on the basis of the traditional GDP. Finally, the values of 26 countries are specifically substituted into the accounting model to obtain the exact values of green GDP for 26 countries worldwide.