green GDP
n.— «The commitments…include environmental systems of national accounting to show “green GDP” as well as the merely financial balance sheet, a determined campaign on energy efficiency, and a public commitment to “reduce the harmful effects of the transport sector.”» —“Government may have to make ‘green’ reports to the United Nations” by Michael McCarthy The Times (London, U.K.) Apr. 30, 1990. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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