Green GDP ou PIB verde

"The green gross domestic product (green GDP) is an index of economic growth with the environmental consequences of that growth factored in.

In 2004, Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier, announced that the green GDP index would replace the Chinese GDP index itself as a performance measure for government and party officials at the highest levels. The first green GDP accounting report, for 2004, was published in September 2006. It showed that the financial loss caused by pollution was 511.8 billion yuan ($66.3 billion), or 3.05 percent of the nation's economy.[1] As an experiment in national accounting, the Green GDP effort collapsed in failure in 2007, when it became clear that the adjustment for environmental damage had reduced the growth rate to politically unacceptable levels, nearly zero in some provinces. In the face of mounting evidence that environmental damage and resource depletion was far more costly than anticipated, the government withdrew its support for the Green GDP methodology and suppressed the 2005 report, which had been due out in March, 2007.[2]

Independent estimates of the cost to China of environmental degradation and resource depletion have for the last decade ranged from 8 to 12 percentage points of GDP growth.[3] These estimates support the idea that, by this measure at least, the growth of the Chinese economy is close to zero."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_gross_domestic_product

Ups! Há sempre contingências nestas coisas do desenvolvimento. Parece que a China também tem os seus problemas de dívida pública...