Value Tree for Economy & Businesses – Arranged For Tracing E/S/G Impacts of Spending
Tier	Economic Sector	For tracing all impacts of business or consumer choices**	Responsibilities
End Users Costs not Reimbursable	100% of GDP Spending · Consumer purchases · Investor purchases (to expand profit making business)	_________ Research Links: World accounting A World SDG – Global Accounting of Responsibilities Statistical model What’s “Scope 4″, and… Why all the tiers?? The Research Paper Whole Systems Energy Assessment - SEA	Buyers Request and Pay: For every service in the whole tree, all the consumption needed to deliver the end product, and its natural impacts the earth, give them: · 100% responsible for use
Top Producer Biz. Costs Reimbursable from Sales	100% of GDP Revenue · Producer of End Products · Operation planning and management		Producers offer and deliver: Organize and carry out those requests and all the impacts, so as in tort law are equally · 100% responsible for use
Lower Tiers Biz. Costs Reimbursable From sales	Payments pass through to other businesses, or to individual people. It’s often an 80%/20% ratio. The variety and number of businesses and people paid at each tier varies widely. 100% of Business revenue ends up paid to people, as “end producers”, to spend for consumption or for investment.		The Networks of Services: Each business in each Tier is responsible is both buyer and seller, generating the demand for all the services they use (and the market for the products they sell). For initial accounting we’d count them · 100% responsible for use GDI/GDP = Global Intensity Is average world impact per $GDP, likely for nearly all spending in a global economy, given how large and diverse the “End Producers” paid are.
End Producers Who also act as End Users	100% of GDP Earning It starts with people and ends with people because machines and nature don’t either pay or get paid.		** Shown for “money in circulation”, but the details don’t change so much for business services that partly count debt as money based trust in it being repaid with interest.

JLH 7-Dec-14