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To encourage the cooperative behavior of the secondary users, primary users lease a fraction of their allocated spectrum to the relay secondary users to transmit their data packets. In this work, a novel unselfish spectrum leasing scheme in CR networks is proposed that offers an energy-efficient solution minimizing the environmental impact of our network. A network management architecture is introduced, and resource allocation is proposed as a constrained sum energy efficiency maximization problem. The optimization problem is formulated and solved using non-linear programming methods and based on a modified Kuhn-Munkres bipartite matching algorithm. 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