The purpose of this research is to review environmental accounting and its difference from traditional accounting. One of the subcategories of accounting over the past years is environmental accounting, which has been developed. Environmental (green) accounting is a set of activities that increases the ability of accounting systems to identify, record and report the effects of environmental destruction and pollution. First, we will introduce the history of environmental (green) accounting. and then the dimensions, goals, reasons of usefulness, its forms and applications, framework, advantages and finally we will discuss the difference between green accounting and traditional accounting