Monday, July 23, 2007

UPDATE 1-China silences green GDP study, report says

(Reuters) - BEIJING, July 23 - China has stopped the public
release of an official study putting a cost to the nation's
environmental damage, a government researcher told a Chinese
newspaper, blaming official reluctance to confront pollution.




The Beijing News reported on Monday that the release of a
"green GDP" report computing the cost of pollution and ecological
degradation in 2005 had been "indefinitely postponed".


Read more at Reuters.com Economic News

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