At least it’s not Friday the 13^th—but on March 13, the U.S. will reach its Overshoot Day for the year 2025.

What is this Overshoot Day?

If everyone in the world lived like U.S. residents, humanity would have exhausted its annual ecological budget by March 13. For the remainder of the year, we would be depleting the planet’s resources faster than they can regenerate. March 13 is one of the earliest dates on the Overshoot Calendar, highlighting the disproportionate ecological footprint of the United States.

The U.S. is fortunate to be endowed with abundant regenerative resources—what we call biocapacity. Per person, it has more than twice the global average of these resources. Yet, despite this wealth, U.S. demand still surpasses what its ecosystems can sustainably provide. At its current rate of consumption, the country would deplete its entire annual regenerative resource budget by the end of June—within just six months. This is its Deficit Day. It’s important to note that some of this biocapacity is also essential for sustaining wildlife.

Both Country Overshoot Day and Deficit Day are critical because they reveal different facets of the same story: our relationship with the regenerative resources that underpin all economic activity. The planet’s regenerative capacity defines the limits of sustainable consumption—whether it’s food, fiber, timber, or even fossil fuels. Fossil fuel use, for instance, is constrained not by the amount of oil or coal remaining underground, but by the biosphere’s ability to absorb carbon emissions. Similarly, mining is limited not by the availability of minerals, but by how much of the biosphere we are willing to sacrifice for extraction and processing.

Why does it matter?

Ignoring resource security and pretending ecological overshoot doesn’t exist leads to self-defeating decisions. It channels investments into assets that will have little utility—and therefore little value—in the future we can already foresee.

This makes this year’s U.S. Overshoot Day particularly significant. Like most nations, the U.S. lacks robust resource accounting systems. Compounding this issue, the current administration is actively dismantling the scientific capacity of government agencies tasked with tracking climate and resource trends. At the same time, it is discouraging a transition away from fossil fuel dependence, further undermining the country’s long-term resilience. Clinging to resources with a shrinking future means investing in infrastructure that will become increasingly obsolete in a world shaped by climate change and resource constraints.

Ironically, the administration claims to prioritize environmental quality. In his March 4 speech to Congress, the president emphasized his commitment to improving air and water quality. Yet, simultaneously, his administration has proposed a 65% budget cut to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the very body responsible for safeguarding air and water. Additionally, there is a strong push to roll back environmental regulations, many of which are designed to protect public health and ecosystems. The administration has also been vocal about its support for fossil fuels and its resistance to renewable energy development.

What can you do?

Ultimately, the winners in a future shaped by climate change and resource constraints will be those who recognize the reality of these challenges and strategically direct their investments toward opportunities that will retain long-term value. This approach not only provides a roadmap for sustained prosperity but favors those who proactively prepare for the predictable shifts ahead.

Recognizing the realities of climate change and resource constraints is therefore not pessimistic—it’s empowering. With the right tools and mindset, we can build a robust and thriving future. As we’ve outlined through our “Power of Possibility” platform, the greatest economic opportunities lie with those ventures that create value while reducing global overshoot.

Here’s what you can do: Whenever you get caught in a conversation about climate change or the futility of environmental action, try this. Turn it into an inquiry. Ask your counterparts what kind of assets they believe are more likely to gain in value, and examine with them how that outcome will that be shaped by the trends of more climate change and increasing resource constraints. In other words, as cities, companies and countries invest in their development, which bets are more likely to be successful?

The good news is that we do not need to wait for others. Each household, city, company, or country can choose their own bets.

What’s not to like? Let’s build a thriving future.

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In 1996, Japan was the first country to officially adopt the Ecological Footprint. Now, Global Footprint Network works with Ecological Footprint Japan to serve Japan’s cities, businesses, regional governments, national ministries, research organizations, and NGOs.

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Government Engagement           Public Awareness           Business Footprinting

History of the Ecological Footprint in Japan

Japan, home to the world’s most populous metropolitan area (Tokyo) and the third largest economy in the world, has historically been very resource conscious due to its limited biocapacity. The Ecological Footprint was first mentioned in an official Japanese government document in 1996, seven years before Global Footprint Network was founded. The early foothold in Japan was facilitated by Yoshihiko Wada, Ph.D., a professor of economics at Doshisha University. Prof. Wada collaborated with Dr. Mathis Wackernagel on Footprint research in its early years and also received his PhD under Professor William E. Rees.

In 2012, Mathis Wackernagel and Bill Rees jointly received Japan’s prestigious environmental prize: the Blue Planet Prize.

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Government Engagement

The Japanese Ministry of the Environment’s 2018 Annual Report featured the Ecological Footprint results for Japan and highlighted Global Footprint Network’s Kyoto city project, completed in collaboration with IDEA Consultants and WWF Japan (pages 68-70). The report noted that if everyone in the world lived like residents in Kyoto, we would need two Earths. This metric would drop to 1.4 Earths if Kyoto achieves its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 40% in 2030 from 1990 levels.

The country’s Ministry of the Environment first included the Ecological Footprint in its 1996 Annual White Paper, which was the first major step by the national government to take action on sustainability. Since then, the Footprint has been a key indicator in several of Japan’s sustainability campaigns. Highlights (in chronological order) include:

• The major metropolitan area of Tokyo released the “Tokyo Metropolitan Government Environmental White Paper” in 2000 and estimated that Tokyo needed 125 times its area to support its citizens. This report marked the first time a city in Japan used Ecological Footprint accounting to calculate its natural resource consumption and make strides to change its trajectory towards one planet living.
• Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport and National and Regional Planning Bureaus calculated the Ecological Footprint of Japan’s 47 prefectures in a 2003 joint report. This effort marked the first time the Footprint was used at a subnational level to help regional agencies understand their resource constraints.
• The Ecological Footprint was adopted by the national government as part of Japan’s Basic Environmental Plan in 2006 and featured strategies for pursuing a more sustainable society and policies for developing diverse energy sources.
• Global Footprint Network supported IDEA Consultants Inc. in the report released by the Ministry of Environment in 2016. The report, the Comprehensive Assessment of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (JBO2: Japan Biodiversity Outlook 2), acknowledged the Ecological Footprint in analyzing ecosystem services and human well-being.
• Kyoto City became the first local government in Japan to calculate its own Footprint in 2016 as part of a joint project involving IDEA Consultants, WWF Japan, and Global Footprint Network. Results in the report showed that the carbon Footprint accounts for 64 percent of the total Ecological Footprint and that if everyone lived like the average Kyoto resident, we would need two planets. The report also set an ambitious goal for Kyoto to reduce carbon emissions 40 percent by 2030 in order to reduce its Ecological Footprint.
• Japan’s Cabinet officially recognized the Ecological Footprint as a key indicator with its adoption of the country’s National Biodiversity Strategy 2023-2030. The Footprint is included as an indicator in two of the Strategy’s five goals: achieving a nature-positive economy (target strategy 3-2) and increasing individuals’ understanding of biodiversity’s value (target strategy 4-2).

Public awareness

To amplify the efforts of the Japanese government to use the Ecological Footprint in policymaking, Global Footprint Network teamed up with organizations such as WWF Japan to help raise sustainability awareness through several campaigns.

• In 2023, The Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan’s largest newspapers, published a story called “8 billion people are straining our Earth to the breaking point”. It is based on Global Footprint Network data. The Japanese version of the story includes a graph showing how humanity’s Ecological Footprint has changed over time.
• The 2010 Ecological Footprint Report found Japan’s Ecological Footprint exceeded the world average by a whopping 50 percent. The report included policy recommendations for decision-makers and tips for consumers to help change consumption patterns and reduce carbon emissions.
• The 2012 Ecological Footprint Report updated Japan’s data to track its progress toward living within the means of our one planet. The report also tracked Footprint trends to historical milestones, and compared the Footprints of Aichi, Okinawa and Tokyo.The report also analyzed the impact of the Fukushima nuclear disaster on biocapacity, estimating it rendered between 2.7 percent and 10 percent of the country’s biocapacity unproductive. Another striking result was that 20 percent of Japan’s Ecological Footprint is associated with food consumption. The report reiterated the need for governments, nonprofits, and consumers to work together to reduce carbon emissions and resource consumption.
• “The Ecological Footprint for Sustainable Living in Japan” (2014) was distributed to the general public to inspire individuals to change behavior, such as reducing food waste, and focus attention on policy change, such as a shift to renewable energy, to reduce the country’s Ecological Footprint.
• In order to raise awareness about the Footprint as a policy-making tool, Global Footprint Network partnered with IDEA Consultants Inc. in 2014 and collaborated on six projects centered on incorporating the Footprint in business, policy-making, and education decisions.
• The Japanese electric company Fujistu created an environmental education tool with WWF Japan and Global Footprint Network’s support. Research Economist Katusnori Iha also (center image below) has taught students about the Ecological Footprint.

• The “How many Earths does your city need” (2019) brochure was created for local governments to introduce the Ecological Footprint concept and demonstrate its use in environmental policy and city planning. This brochure builds upon “The Ecological Footprint for Sustainable Living in Japan” from 2015 that focused on the general public.
• As part of the FEAST Project (Lifeworlds of Sustainable Food Consumption and Production-Agrifood Systems in Transition), Global Footprint Network computed the Ecological Footprint for Japan’s 47 prefectures, using a replicable top-down Footprint approach. The analysis included a breakdown of the Ecological Footprint by demographic or other socio-economic indicators. Results indicate:
  • The Ecological Footprint varied considerably among the prefectures.
  • Total Ecological Footprint and food Footprints increase with urbanization, age, and income.
  • Economic decentralization and local food production may be key sustainability strategies.
• The FEAST project takes a transdisciplinary approach to explore the reality of, and potential for, sustainable agrifood transition in Asia (Japan, Thailand, Bhutan, and China). Outcomes of the project are detailed in “Decentralization & local food: Japan’s regional Ecological Footprints indicate localized sustainability strategies” published in the Journal of Cleaner Production. Additionally, the project has been covered in Nikkei, Japan’s leading economics newspaper.

Business Footprinting

After the Footprint gained traction with government policy makers, businesses began using the concept to help fully understand their environmental impact.

• In 2012, the Kao Corporation, a large Japanese chemicals and cosmetics company, presented the Ecological Footprint at Japan’s Institute of Life Cycle Development in order for businesses to better understand their total environmental impact.
• The Ecological Footprint also has been used in trade analysis. In collaboration with the Keidanren Conservation Nature Fund and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Global Footprint Network analyzed the trade links and dependencies of southeast Asian nations using the National Footprint and Biocapacity Accounts and environmentally extended multi-regional input-output analysis (MRIO) methods. The results were published in the Asian Biotechnology and Development Review.
• Daiichi-Sankyo, a global pharmaceutical company with Japanese origins, applied the Ecological Footprint concept to improve their environmental management. For this multi-year collaboration beginning in 2016, we work with IDEA Consultants Inc. on the business’ Footprint project (trends shown in figure below). Daiichi-Sankyo’s Footprint and reduction targets are detailed on their website.
• With the Mitsubishi Research Institute (MRI), Global Footprint Network developed an Ecological Footprint scenario model to envision ways to achieve one planet living. The objective of our engagement in MRI’s 50^th Anniversary Project is to support their vision of the future for 2070, fifty years from now. Understanding how humanity can live within the means of one planet is a top priority considering human population may reach 10 billion around 2070. The final report (in Japanese) details the assessments and assumptions made. The figure below shows that Japan can meet one planet living by 2070 if all scenarios can be achieved.

Long-term relationships characterized by mutual respect with our partners have been crucial to the success of Global Footprint Network’s work in Japan. Global Footprint Network looks forward to continued collaboration with these partners in the future and also welcomes inquiries from new potential partners to further amplify our work.

For more information about working with Global Footprint Network in Japan, please contact Katsunori Iha at Katsunori@footprintnetwork.org.

Reports

Kyoto City Basic Environmental Plan Report

Report of Comprehensive Assessment of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Japan (Japanese)

Kyoto City’s Ecological Footprint

Iha, K., Poblete, P., Panda, D., Winkler, S., 2015. A Footprint Analysis of ASEAN: Ensuring Sustainable Development in an Increasingly Resource Constrained World. Asian Biotechnology and Development Review, 17, 57-67.

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OAKLAND, CA, USA — JULY 23, 2019 — On July 29, humanity will have used nature’s resource budget for the entire year, according to Global Footprint Network, an international sustainability organization that has pioneered the Ecological Footprint. It is Earth Overshoot Day. Its date has moved up two months over the past 20 years to the 29th of July this year, the earliest date ever.

Earth Overshoot Day falling on July 29^th means that humanity is currently using nature 1.75 times faster than our planet’s ecosystems can regenerate. This is akin to using 1.75 Earths. Overshoot is possible because we are depleting our natural capital – which compromises humanity’s future resource security. The costs of this global ecological overspending are becoming increasingly evident in the form of deforestation, soil erosion, biodiversity loss, or the buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The latter leads to climate change and more frequent extreme weather events.

“We have only got one Earth – this is the ultimately defining context for human existence. We can’t use 1.75 without destructive consequences,” said Mathis Wackernagel, co-inventor of Ecological Footprint accounting and founder of Global Footprint Network.

His just released book, Ecological Footprint: Managing Our Biocapacity Budget, demonstrates that overshoot can only be temporary. Humanity will eventually have to operate within the means of Earth’s ecological resources, whether that balance is restored by disaster or by design. “Companies and countries that understand and manage the reality of operating in a one-planet context are in a far better position to navigate the challenges of the 21^st century,” Wackernagel writes.

Accelerate solutions to #MoveTheDate

Moving the date of Earth Overshoot Day back 5 days each year would allow humanity to reach one-planet compatibility before 2050. Solutions that #MoveTheDate are available and financially advantageous. Significant opportunities are to be found in five key areas: cities, energy, food, population, and planet. For instance, cutting CO₂ emissions from fossil fuel burning by 50% would #MoveTheDate by 93 days.

Christiana Figueres, the former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Bertrand Piccard, founder of the Solar Impulse Foundation, and Sandrine Dixson-Declѐve, co-president of the Club of Rome, are among those who took to Twitter in recent weeks, calling to #MoveTheDate in video statements. Shoot your own statement.

Just days ahead of Earth Overshoot Day, Global Footprint Network launched the beta version of the #MoveTheDate Solutions Map where people are invited to champion existing solutions. Users can also connect with each other on the basis of geography and focus of interest, accelerating the implementation of new projects in the real world. Developed with startup Mapotic, the social platform also features solutions identified by partners, starting with Buckminster Fuller Institute award laureates.

The #MoveTheDate Solutions Map is designed to complement the Footprint Calculator. The latter, which enables people to calculate their own Ecological Footprint and their personal Earth Overshoot Day, draws more than 2.5 million users per year and is now available in eight languages, with Chinese and Portuguese most recently added.

The relevance of one-planet compatibility for successful business strategies is explored in a whitepaper by Schneider Electric and Global Footprint Network that was published July 22. Follow the twitter discussion via #SEMoveTheDate. Previous research by both organizations shows that if 100% of the existing building and industry infrastructure were equipped with available energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies from Schneider Electric and partners, the date of Earth Overshoot Day would move back by 21 days at least.

Additional resources

• Whitepaper www.schneider-electric.com/en/download/document/one_planet_prosperity
• #MoveTheDate Solutions Map movethedate.overshootday.org
• Earth Overshoot Day www.overshootday.org
• Infographics www.overshootday.org/newsroom/infographics/
• Ecological Footprint: Managing our Biocapacity Budget (book) www.footprintnetwork.org/2019/07/22/ecological-footprint-book
• Footprint Calculator www.footprintcalculator.org
• Footprint Data for countries data.footprintnetwork.org
• Business-focused press release www.overshootday.org/content/uploads/2019/07/SE_EarthOvershootDay2019_0722_PR_en.pdf 
• June press release www.overshootday.org/newsroom/press-release-june-2019-english/

About the Ecological Footprint

The Ecological Footprint is the most comprehensive biological resource accounting metric available. It adds up all of people’s competing demands for biologically productive areas – food, timber, fibers, carbon sequestration, and accommodation of infrastructure. Currently, carbon emissions from burning fossil fuel make up 60 percent of humanity’s Ecological Footprint.

The book “Ecological Footprint: Managing Our Biocapacity Budget,” available in September, provides an in-depth introduction, drawing on the Footprint’s 30-year experience fighting ecological bankruptcy with robust resource accounting. Excerpts available for publication.

About Global Footprint Network

Global Footprint Network is an international sustainability organization that is helping the world live within the Earth’s means and respond to climate change. Since 2003 we’ve engaged with more than 50 countries, 30 cities, and 70 global partners to deliver scientific insights that have driven high-impact policy and investment decisions. Together, we’re creating a future where all of us can thrive within the limits of our one planet.
www.footprintnetwork.org

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OAKLAND, CA, USA — JUNE 26, 2019 — On July 29, humanity will have used nature’s resource budget for the entire year, according to Global Footprint Network, an international sustainability organization that has pioneered the Ecological Footprint. The Ecological Footprint adds up all of people’s competing demands for biologically productive areas – food, timber, fibers, carbon sequestration, and accommodation of infrastructure. Currently, carbon emissions from burning fossil fuel comprise 60% of humanity’s Ecological Footprint.

Some 80 000 people have already signed current petitions to US and EU decision makers to demand that biological resource management be placed at the core of the decision-making process.

Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s annual demand on nature exceeds what Earth’s ecosystems can regenerate in that year. Over the past 20 years, it has moved up three months to July 29, the earliest ever. This means that humanity is currently using nature 1.75 times faster than our planet’s ecosystems can regenerate, equivalent to 1.75 Earths. Humanity first saw ecological deficit in the early 1970s. Overshoot is possible because we are depleting our natural capital, compromising the planet’s future regenerative capacity.

Ecological overspending costs are becoming increasingly evident: deforestation, soil erosion, biodiversity loss, and the buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere leading to climate change and more frequent extreme weather events.

“Ultimately, human activity will be brought in balance with Earth’s ecological resources. The question is whether we choose to get there by disaster or by design – one-planet misery or one-planet prosperity,” said Mathis Wackernagel, co-inventor of Ecological Footprint accounting and founder of Global Footprint Network.

#MoveTheDate toward one-planet compatibility

If we move the date of Earth Overshoot Day back 5 days annually, humanity can reach one-planet compatibility before 2050. Global Footprint Network highlights opportunities for action that are available today and assesses their impact on the date of Earth Overshoot Day. For instance, replacing 50% of meat consumption with vegetarian food would move the date of Overshoot Day 15 days (10 days for the reduction of methane emissions from livestock alone); reducing the carbon component of the global Ecological Footprint by 50% would move the date 93 days.

Elements of the 2019 campaign

• The Ecological Footprint Calculator is now available in Hindi, English, Chinese, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian. To date, more than 15 million people have calculated their Ecological Footprint and personal Earth Overshoot Day.
• Global Footprint Network and its partners invite the public to explore “Steps to #MoveTheDate” supporting the global movement towards one-planet compatibility, connected to energy, food, cities, population, and planet. Opportunities for action include starting a population conversation, launching workplace programs like food waste reduction, and petitioning governments to manage natural resources responsibly.

Additional resources

About solutions to #MoveTheDate : www.overshootday.org/solutions

Infographics in multiple languages : https://www.overshootday.org/newsroom/infographics/

About Earth Overshoot Day: www.overshootday.org

Calculate your own Footprint : www.footprintcalculator.org

Explore all countries’ Ecological Footprint and biocapacity : data.footprintnetwork.org

New book about Ecological Footprint accounting, with excerpts available for publication: https://www.newsociety.com/Books/E/Ecological-Footprint

About Global Footprint Network

Global Footprint Network, the host of Earth Overshoot Day, is an international sustainability organization that is helping the world to better manage its natural resources and respond to climate change. Since 2003 we’ve engaged with more than 50 countries, 30 cities, and 70 global partners to deliver scientific insights that have driven high-impact policy and investment decisions. Together, we’re creating a future where all of us can thrive within the limits of our one planet.
www.footprintnetwork.org

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Germanwatch, INKOTA, BUNDJugend, Naturschutzjugend, FairBindung und Global Footprint Network

Ab 3. Mai (Freitag) leben wir ökologisch gesehen auf Kredit: Der deutsche Erdüberlastungstag markiert den Zeitpunkt im Jahr, an dem weltweit das jährliche erneuerbare Budget der Erde aufgebraucht wäre, wenn die gesamte Weltbevölkerung auf so großem Fuß wie die Menschen in Deutschland leben würde. Der Tag wird jährlich vom Global Footprint Network errechnet: Die Buchhaltung misst wie viel produktive Land- und Meeresfläche für Lebensmittel, Fasern, Holz, Straßen und Gebäude, sowie für die Absorption des CO₂ der Fossilenergienutzung benötigt wird. Deutschland liegt mit seinem Pro-Kopf-Verbrauch und seinen Emissionen im obersten Viertel aller Länder und trägt damit wesentlich zur weltweiten Übernutzung bei. „Sowohl beim Klimaschutz als auch bei der Ressourcennutzung agiert die Bundesregierung, als ob es kein Morgen gäbe. Doch wir werden unser Recht auf Zukunft nicht einfach aufgeben. Dass unsere Generation jeden Freitag auf die Straße geht und von der Politik ein schnelles, deutliches Umsteuern einfordert, ist nur konsequent“, kommentiert Kira Heinemann aus dem Vorstand der BUNDjugend.

Bei der Berechnung des Erdüberlastungstages werden zwei Größen gegenübergestellt: zum einen die biologische Kapazität der Erde Ressourcen aufzubauen und Abfälle sowie Emissionen aufzunehmen, zum anderen der gesamte Bedarf an nutzbaren natürlichen Ressourcen und Flächen wie Wälder und Ackerland, den die Menschen für ihre derzeitige Lebens- und Wirtschaftsweise brauchen. „Wenn alle Menschen so leben würden wie in Deutschland, dann bräuchten wir drei Erden. Diese Verschwendung unserer Ressourcen muss aufhören. Wir tragen die Verantwortung gegenüber künftigen Generationen. Ein Umdenken und eine Änderung unseres Verhaltens zu einer nachhaltigen Lebensweise muss jetzt stattfinden“, betont Jan Göldner, aus dem Bundesvorstand der NAJU (Naturschutzjugend im NABU). Zum Vergleich: Die gesamte Weltbevölkerung braucht zirka 1,7 Erden, um den heutigen materiellen Bedarf der Menschheit zu decken. an natürlichen Rohstoffen wie Ackerland und Wäldern zu decken. „Da wir nur eine Erde haben, führt diese Übernutzung zu einer fortschreitenden Verschlechterung der Böden und Waldqualität und zu einer hochriskanten Klimakrise. Wir sind Teil eines gefährlichen Schneeballsystems: Wir nehmen Ressourcen der Zukunft, um die heutige Wirtschaft zu füttern. Wie bei einem finanziellen Schneeballsystem bauen wir uns damit die eigene Falle“, sagt Dr. Mathis Wackernagel, Gründer des Global Footprint Networks.

In Deutschland tragen vor allem die Energieversorgung und der Verkehr durch ihre hohen CO₂-Emissionen zur Überlastung bei. “Der Rückgang bei den CO₂-Emissionen in Deutschland 2018 war auf den milden Winter, höhere CO₂-Preise im Emissionshandel und das Schließen von Kohlekraftwerken zurückzuführen“, sagt Julia Otten von Germanwatch. „Notwendig wäre ein stabiler Rückgang der Emissionen mit doppelter Geschwindigkeit. In allen Sektoren muss mit verbindlichen Zielen und einem steigenden CO₂-Preis umgesteuert werden. Dafür brauchen wir ein Klimaschutzgesetz.”

Die industrielle Landwirtschaft trägt mit enormem Flächenbedarf für die Fleischproduktion und hohen Treibhausgasemissionen zu Deutschlands zu großem ökologischen Fußabdruck bei. „Unter unserer Wirtschaftsweise leiden vor allem Menschen in ärmeren Ländern: Bauern und Bäuerinnen dort sind besonders stark von Extremwetterereignissen in Folge des Klimawandels betroffen. Der Zyklon Idai hat in Mosambik ganze Ernten und somit die Lebensgrundlage der Bevölkerung zerstört“, sagt Lena Michelsen von der Entwicklungsorganisation INKOTA. „Aber auch in Deutschland nehmen Schadensfälle deutlich zu.“

„Wir müssen uns fragen, auf wessen Kosten unser ressourcenintensiver Lebensstil in Deutschland geht – und ob es nicht solidarischere Formen gibt, unsere Bedürfnisse zu befriedigen“, sagt Kristina Utz von der wachstumskritischen Organisation FairBindung.

Der Erdüberlastungstag wird jedes Jahr vom Global Footprint Network errechnet. Er wird einerseits für jedes Land ermittelt – wie jetzt für Deutschland. Andererseits rechnet sich auch der globale Erdüberlastungstag, der sich auf die weltweite Ressourcennutzung bezieht. Dieser war letztes Jahr am 1. August.

Hintergrund: Für Daten zu allen Ländern: data.footprintnetwork.org

Zum globalen Erdüberlastungstag gibt es mehr unter www.overshootday.org

Englische Version hier lesen

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Germanwatch, INKOTA, BUNDJugend, Naturschutzjugend, FairBindung and Global Footprint Network

From 3 May, Germans will be living on credit, ecologically—Germany’s Overshoot Day marks the point in the year when the world’s annual renewable budget would be used up if the entire world population lived like German residents. The day is calculated annually by Global Footprint Network who measures how much productive land and sea area is needed for food, fiber, wood, roads and buildings, as well as for the absorption of CO₂ from burning fossil fuel. With its per capita consumption and emissions, Germany is in the top quarter of all countries and thus contributes significantly to global overuse. “Both in terms of climate protection and resource use, the German government is acting as if there were no tomorrow. But we will not simply give up our right to the future. It is only logical that our generation takes to the streets every Friday and demands a quick and clear change of course from politicians,” comments Kira Heinemann from the Executive Board of BUNDjugend.

When calculating Germany’s Overshoot Day, two variables are compared: on the one hand, the biological capacity of Earth to renew resources and absorb waste emissions, and on the other hand, the total demand for usable natural resources and areas such as forests and farmland that people need for their current way of living and for economic activities. “If everyone lived as they do in Germany, we would need three Earths. This waste of our resources must stop. We have a responsibility to future generations. A rethinking and a change of our behavior to a sustainable way of life must take place now”, emphasizes Jan Göldner, from the federal board of (Naturschutzjugend im NABU). By way of comparison, the entire world population needs about 1.7 Earths to meet the material needs of humanity today. “Since we have only one Earth, this overuse leads to a progressive deterioration of the soil and forest quality and to a high-risk climate crisis. We are part of a dangerous Ponzi (or pyramid) scheme: we take resources of the future to feed today’s economy. It’s like building our own trap,” says Dr. Mathis Wackernagel, founder of Global Footprint Network.

In Germany, energy supply and transport in particular contribute to overshoot through their high CO₂ emissions. “The decline in CO₂ emissions in Germany in 2018 was caused by a mild winter, higher CO₂ prices in emissions trading and the closure of coal-fired power plants,” says Julia Otten of Germanwatch. “A stable reduction in emissions at double speed would be necessary. In all sectors, a reorientation is needed with binding targets and a rising CO₂ price. For this we need a climate protection law.”

With its enormous land requirements for meat production and high greenhouse gas emissions, industrial agriculture is contributing to Germany’s large Ecological Footprint. “People in lower income countries suffer most from our way of doing business: Farmers there are particularly hard hit by extreme weather events as a result of climate change. Cyclone Idai has destroyed entire harvests and thus the livelihood of the population in Mozambique,” says Lena Michelsen of the development organisation INKOTA. “But also in Germany the number of cases of damage is increasing significantly.”

“We must ask ourselves at whose expense our resource-intensive lifestyle in Germany is at – and whether there are not more forms of solidarity to satisfy our needs,” says Kristina Utz of the growth-critical organisation FairBindung.

The Earth Overshoot Day is calculated every year by Global Footprint Network. On the one hand, it is calculated for each country – as it is now for Germany. On the other hand, Earth Overshoot Day refers to the worldwide use of resources. Last year it took place on 1 August.

Background: For data on all countries: data.footprintnetwork.org

More information on Earth Overshoot Day can be found at www.overshootday.org

For the German version – click here.

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OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 25, 2019—The 2019 edition of the National Footprint and Biocapacity Accounts tracks the Ecological Footprint and biocapacity of all countries, using U.N. data, from 1961 to 2016. This is two years further than last year’s edition, since U.N. data is becoming available more rapidly.

One finding is that humanity’s carbon Footprint dropped 1.4 percent between 2014 and 2016, bringing the total Ecological Footprint—a measure of global human demand for biological resources—down 0.5 percent over the same period. Recent data pointing to significant increases in carbon emissions throughout 2017 and 2018 suggest that this trend was short-lived, however.

Because carbon emissions require land covered with forests to be absorbed, they are counted as a competing human demand on the planet in the Ecological Footprint accounts. They compete for land area with demands for food, forest products, fibers, or infrastructure needs such as roads and buildings. In fact, the carbon Footprint accounts for 60 percent of the current Ecological Footprint of humanity. Overall, humanity’s demand for goods and services from ecological systems is currently 75 percent higher than what the planet can renew today.

“Our data show that we use as much from nature as if we lived on 1.75 Earths, yet we only have one. This is not a judgement, just a measurement. In this context, bringing human activity back within the ecological budget of our one planet is not about doing the noble thing or easing our guilty conscience. It is about choosing self-interest and what works. We will move out of ecological overshoot. Why choose to get there by disaster rather than by design?” —DR. MATHIS WACKERNAGEL, Founder and President of Global Footprint Network

All the Footprint and biocapacity data up to 2016 is freely available on the Ecological Footprint Explorer open data platform at data.footprintnetwork.org. Additionally, “nowcasting” capabilities to forecast results to 2019 and licenses for more detail on countries’ demand by consumer activities are available for a fee.

The shrinking of the total global Ecological Footprint in 2016, the latest year with a complete U.N. data set, is mostly due to a 1.4 percent drop in the carbon Footprint over the 2014-2016 period. This led to an average per-person Ecological Footprint worldwide of 2.8 global hectares (gha), compared to 1.6 gha per person of available biocapacity. (Biocapacity represents the productivity of the Earth’s ecological assets; a global hectare is a biologically productive hectare with world average productivity.)

As of 2016, eighty-six percent of the world’s population lives in a country with an ecological deficit. A country runs an ecological deficit when its residents demand more from nature than the country’s own ecosystems can regenerate. Seventy-one percent of the world’s population lives in a country with an ecological deficit and below world-average income, and therefore are unlikely to be able to buy their way out of the resource crunch.

Highlights of the new Footprint data and tools

• Last year, the United Nations’ persistent efforts to improve access to pertinent data resulted in shortening the delay in available data from three to two years. Not only did this change give researchers access to two years worth of data (2015, 2016) since last year’s edition, but this one-year gain in data availability delay brings the accurate assessment of countries’ Ecological Footprint and biocapacity that much closer to the current time, improving researchers’ ability to describe the recent reality and to assess current trends.
• The 2019 edition of the National Footprint and Biocapacity Accounts was produced, for the very first time, under the close observation of the team at York University’s Faculty of Environmental Studies (FES) who is part of the Ecological Footprint Initiative. Going forward, the Ecological Footprint Initiative team in Toronto will be entrusted with producing National Footprint and Biocapacity Accounts data with the support of Global Footprint Network, in the context of the partnership created in 2018 by both organizations with a view to ensuring ever more robust and transparent data in the future.

“Our faculty and students continue to appreciate and use global data on the Ecological Footprint and biocapacity of countries. These remain the best metrics for calculating human demand on the environment. We look forward to continuing the important work of producing the National Footprint and Biocapacity Accounts and leading a global research network committed to its application by policy-makers and the public.” —DR. ALICE J. HOVORKA, Dean & Professor of the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University

Some country trends worth watching

All the results shown in this section reflect the perspective of a country’s consumption. This perspective tracks what is produced within the country plus the Footprint of trade (imports minus exports).

Venezuela

Venezuela’s total Ecological Footprint dropped 20 percent between 2014 and 2016, reflecting the dramatic deterioration of the country’s economy over the same period. The largest driver is the 50 percent decrease of the national cropland Footprint, due to a 58 percent collapse in Ecological Footprint of imports of agricultural products and a whopping 34 percent decline in local agricultural output. The carbon Footprint closely follows behind with a 12.8 percent decrease caused by the severe economic recession. Overall, the Ecological Footprint and GDP trends are closely aligned in this case. Rampant inflation began in 2015. By 2016, President Maduro declared economic emergency.

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom’s carbon Footprint dropped 11.7 percent between 2014 and 2016, driving the country’s total Ecological Footprint down 8.8 percent. The U.K.’s total carbon Footprint has decreased by 29 percent since its 2007 peak and by around 26 percent since 1990, faster than any other major high-income country. These trends continue into 2017, largely driven by a significant decline in coal use, according to Carbon Brief: “The most significant factors include a cleaner electricity mix based on gas and renewables instead of coal, as well as falling demand for energy across homes, businesses and industry.” Remarkably, the U.K. is one of 19 countries to have significantly lowered their fossil fuel emissions over the past decade without decreasing their GDP. The “decoupling” of GDP and Ecological Footprint is certainly a hot trend to watch for the in the years to come.

On a different note, lower crop yields in 2016 cause the cropland Footprint of the U.K. to decline by 13 percent. According to the U.K.’s farming statistics, wheat and barley yields dropped 12 percent and 11 percent respectively after a couple of years of peak performance but they remain in line with longer term averages. Meanwhile, blackgrass and other weeds, poor drainage and disease caused oilseed rape yields to drop 21 percent.

Europe

Many countries in Europe, including France and Germany, are showing a trend in decoupling of GDP and Ecological Footprint that echoes the trend in the U.K.. Europe’s carbon Footprint, which contributes to 60 percent of the region’s total Ecological Footprint, has decreased by 21 percent since 2007, including 3.7 percent between 2014 and 2016. This decline has been a major driver is drawing Europe’s Ecological Footprint down by 15 percent over the same period, lowering the ecological deficit by about 34 percent. Europe still uses 35 percent more goods and services from nature than its own natural ecosystems can renew.

Note that from 1991 on, the Europe region data set includes the breakaway countries from former Yugoslavia, the Baltic States, Belarus, Moldova, and Russia.

United States

The USA’s total Ecological Footprint has decreased over the past decade, largely driven by an 18 percent decrease in its carbon Footprint between 2005 and 2016. This is due to competition from natural gas and renewables, which have displaced coal-fired power as a cheaper option for electricity production. However, this trend was reversed in 2017 and 2018, according to more recent US data that the National Footprint Accounts will start taking into account in its next edition as 2017 U.N. data is made available. America’s carbon dioxide emissions rose by 3.4 percent in 2018, the biggest increase in eight years. Colder winters in the Northeast have spiked the use of oil and gas for heating. Hotter summers around the country have increased power usage for cooling, boosting emissions. Other factors include a boost in manufacturing and a relative expansion of the national economy, leading to higher emissions from factories, trucks and air travel. The U.S. has yet to find its path toward decoupling its carbon Footprint from economic growth.

Russia

The continuous 12 percent slide of Russia’s Ecological Footprint since 2011 has mainly been driven by the 18 percent decrease of its carbon Footprint. Rather than a “decoupling” phenomenon between GDP growth and lower carbon emissions, however, this decrease reflects the economic difficulties that Russia struggled with over that period. Factors include the continued downward momentum of oil prices since their 2012 peak, and the sanctions imposed by the United States, the 28-nation European Union, Norway, Canada, and Australia in retaliation for Russia’s interference in Ukraine. The weak ruble and changes in state support programs which make beef imports too expensive for most potential buyers in Russia, compounded in 2014 by Russia’s retaliatory ban on food products from those same countries, including meat, are reflected in the 38 percent drop of the grazing Footprint between 2012 and 2016.

Russia has also enjoyed a 51 percent growth of its total cropland biocapacity (+50 percent per person) since its momentous 2012 grain harvest failure due to the exceptional drought in its Eastern agricultural regions. While expanding farmland areas account for 3 percent of this increase (or 1.58 million global hectares), improved yields make up the rest. Since 2011, Russia has grown its total ecological reserve by 85 percent (86 percent per person) despite losing 1.6 percent of its forest biocapacity over the same period.

China

Unlike European countries, China’s total carbon Footprint soared in the post economic recession era. It increased by 39 percent from 2007 to 2014, reaching its peak in 2014. Since then, it has decreased by 2 percent thanks to a significantly reduced use of coal. From 2014 to 2016, expanded renewable and nuclear power generation was able to cover the slow growth in overall electricity consumption, according to Carbon Brief. This led to a slight decline in coal-fired power generation. However, 2017 and 2018 energy data point to a trend reversal. Electricity demand grew so fast in those two recent years – driven by growth in heavy manufacturing as well as contributions from household use and the service sector – that new low-carbon sources could not keep up. According to the Global Carbon Project, emissions grew by 2.3 percent from 2017 to 2018 due to more coal consumption for electricity production.

Since 2004, China, not unlike Russia, has grown its total cropland biocapacity by a whopping 19.3 percent (20 percent per person) – including 3.5 percent between 2014 and 2016 alone – increasing total biocapacity by 13 percent over the same period. Much of this upward trend is due to policies and government spending designed to improve agricultural sciences and practices in order to improve crop yield stability and performance, fending off the specter of feeding a large population from a relatively small area of available farmland. In addition, China has been expanding its total forested land by 32 percent since 1990.

Cuba

Cuba’s ecological deficit per person dropped 22.4 percent between 2010 and 2016, as its Ecological Footprint per person decreased by 10 percent and its biocapacity per person grew by 13 percent. The 23 percent decrease in the carbon Footprint per person is the main driver of the Ecological Footprint’s slide. Whether this trend continues hinges on the country’s commitment, in line with the Paris Climate Agreement, to generate 24 percent of its power from renewable sources by 2030. Cuba’s new Constitution, which was approved by referendum in February 2019, includes amendments directing Cuba to “promote the conservation of the environment and the fight against climate change, which threatens the survival of the human species.”

Between 2010 and 2016, Cuba increased its biocapacity per person by 13 percent (or 15 percent total) thanks to a 9 percent expansion of its total forested areas and a 28 percent boost of its total cropland biocapacity. The latter was made possible through agricultural transformation policies and programs designed, since 2007, to increase the country’s agricultural food self-sufficiency and biofuels capacity, reduce its dependence on imports, and possibly boost exports. However, the trend is expected to register a severe slow down, if not a halt, past 2016 due to extreme weather events, including Hurricane Irma in 2017, and the impact of the Venezuelan crisis on the Cuban economy.

For additional information

Check out our recent paper: Defying the Footprint Oracle: Implications of Country Resource Trends which focuses on lower-income countries. The article is based on the 2018 edition.

National Footprint and Biocapacity Accounts 2019 edition results will inform Mathis Wackernagel and Bert Beyer’s upcoming book, Ecological Footprint: Managing Our Biocapacity Budget, available for presale.

More resources

Launch Event Livestream: youtu.be/egcA0SXJFzA
Ecological Footprint Explorer Open Data Platform: data.footprintnetwork.org
Public Data package: www.footprintnetwork.org/public
Footprint Calculator: www.footprintcalculator.org
Country Work: www.footprintnetwork.org/countries
National Footprint Accounts Video: youtu.be/_T5M3MiPfW4

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A press conference to outline more details about the project will be held at 10:00 a.m. May 25, 2018 at Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning, Dunajska c.47.

The trainings on May 23 and 24 were led by Global Footprint Network Research Director Dr. David Lin and organized by the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning, the Slovenian Environment Agency, and the Slovenian Institute for Youth Participation, Health and Sustainable Development (IMZTR). They were attended by representatives and experts from the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning of the Republic of Slovenia, Slovenian Environment Agency, other ministries and government agencies, scientific and expert organisations and NGOs Focus and Umanotera. The project began earlier this month and will continue into the summer with deeper analysis of Footprint trends in Slovenia.

The Ecological Footprint measures a population’s annual demand for natural resources, including food, timber, fiber, and absorption of carbon emissions. It can be compared to biocapacity, which measures a region’s annual capacity to regenerate such resources. The Footprint is the only comprehensive resource metric that can be scaled from the individual level (with an online personal Footprint Calculator at www.footprintcalculator.org), to cities, regions, countries, and the world.

The average Ecological Footprint in Slovenia is 4.7 global hectares per person, the same as the average in the European Union. However, that is more than two times the biocapacity of Slovenia, and nearly three times of what’s available globally per person. The carbon Footprint makes up about 60 percent of Slovenia’s Ecological Footprint, similar to the global Ecological Footprint.

“If all humanity consumed like an average Slovene, we would need 2.8 Earths,” noted Dr. Mathis Wackernagel, CEO and co-founder of Global Footprint Network. “But we have only one Earth. Not adjusting to planetary limits becomes a risk to us all. While our planet has limits, human ingenuity does not. Living within the means of our planet is technologically possible, financially beneficial, and our only chance for a prosperous future. Let’s put building a successful future at the center of our attention.”

The Ecological Footprint was recently adopted as a strategic indicator for both the National Development Strategy and the National Environmental Programme of Slovenia in order to measure current natural resource supply and demand and better understand historic trends. This information will then be used to help guide future policy and investment decisions for Footprint reduction.

Slovenia is among more than a dozen countries who have used the Ecological Footprint to help guide environmental policy. Others include Ecuador, Japan, the Philippines, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates.

Additional Resources:

Learn more about Global Footprint Network’s country work: www.footprintnetwork.org/countries

Calculate your individual Ecological Footprint on www.footprintcalculator.org

Ecological Footprint data from countries around the world is available on the open Footprint Explorer data platform: data.footprintnetwork.org.

Follow #MoveTheDate on social networks.

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OAKLAND, CA, USA; SIENA, ITALY, 24 MAGGIO 2018–Secondo i dati del Global Footprint Network, un’organizzazione internazionale di ricerca ambientale se tutta la popolazione mondiale avesse lo stesso stile di vita e gli stessi consumi degli italiani, il Giorno del Sovrasfruttamento della Terra cadrebbe il 24 maggio.

Il “Giorno del Sovrasfruttamento della Terra” indica per ogni anno la data in cui l’umanità ha finito di consumare tutte le risorse che il nostro pianeta è in grado di produrre in quell’anno: questi calcoli sono basati sull’indicatore ambientale detto “Impronta ecologica”.

L’Impronta ecologica misura la domanda annuale dell’umanità di risorse naturali e può essere confrontata con la biocapacità, che misura la capacità della Terra di rigenerare tali risorse in un anno.

Il Giorno del Sovrasfruttamento della Terra per l’Italia è calcolato attribuendo l’Impronta ecologica di un Italiano medio a tutta la popolazione mondiale e quindi confrontandola con la biocapacità globale.

“Se tutti gli abitanti della Terra consumassero le risorse come fanno gli Italiani, avremmo bisogno di 2,6 pianeti Terra”, ha dichiarato Mathis Wackernagel, Ph.D., CEO e co-fondatore del Global Footprint Network. “Ma chiaramente abbiamo solo una Terra a disposizione, e non adattarsi ai suoi limiti diventa un rischio per tutti noi. Se il nostro pianeta ha dei limiti, l’ingegno dell’uomo sembra non averne. Vivere secondo le capacita del nostro pianeta di sostenerci è tecnologicamente possibile, economicamente vantaggioso ed è la nostra unica possibilità per un futuro più florido. Costruire un futuro sostenibile per tutti deve essere la nostra priorità “.

Quasi ogni anno, il Giorno del Sovrasfruttamento cade sempre prima nel calendario e questo succede a partire dai primi anni ’70, quando l’umanità ha iniziato a vivere in deficit ecologico. Gli effetti del deficit ecologico globale stanno diventando sempre più evidenti in forma di deforestazione, erosione del suolo, perdita degli habitat naturali e della biodiversità, accumulo di anidride carbonica nell’atmosfera e cambiamento climatico.

Con un valore pro capite di 4,3 ettari globali (o gha), noi Italiani abbiamo un impronta ecologica decisamente superiore alla media Mediterranea (3.2 gha pro capite), sebbene inferiore a quella dei Francesi (4,7 gha pro capite), e maggiore di quella degli Spagnoli (3,8 gha pro capite). Tutto ciò è dovuto principalmente al settore dei trasporti e al consumo di cibo. Agire su queste due sfere di attività quotidiane darebbe quindi le più alte possibilità di invertire la tendenza e ridurre l’impronta degli italiani.

L’odierno lancio della versione italiana del Footprint calculator consente agli italiani di scoprire come le proprie attività quotidiane influenzino la loro impronta ecologica, ovvero il consumo di risorse naturali. Il Global Footprint Network ha lanciato il nuovo Footprint Calculator su www.footprintcalculator.org/it in collaborazione con la Fondazione Monte dei Paschi di Siena, fondazione toscana di origine bancaria che svolge attività filantropica a servizio della propria comunità di riferimento.

“Speriamo che il nuovo Footprint Calculator italiano diventi uno strumento utile per aumentare la consapevolezza sulla sostenibilità tra studenti, genitori e insegnanti coinvolti nei nostri programmi educativi, come sCOOL FOOD e il progetto di cittadinanza globale FMPS”, ha dichiarato Davide Usai, CEO di FMPS. “Crediamo fermamente che il Calculator sia un potente strumento per consentire a sempre più persone in Italia di cercare soluzioni per la sostenibilità.”

L’Impronta ecologica di una persona rappresenta la misura di superficie di pianeta produttiva necessaria a fornire tutto ciò che la persona stessa richiede alla natura, compresi la produzione di cibo, fibre e legno, le aree per le infrastrutture urbane e l’assorbimento delle emissioni di anidride carbonica dovute all’utilizzo di combustibili fossili.

Oltre a misurare l’impronta ecologica di un individuo, lo strumento presentato oggi consente agli utenti di determinare il proprio Giorno del Sovrasfruttamento della Terra, ovvero la data in cui le risorse che il pianeta produce in un intero anno verrebbero esaurite se tutta la popolazione mondiale vivesse secondo il suo stile di vita. Nel 2017, il Giorno del Sovrasfruttamento della Terra è stato il 2 agosto, quindi se il Giorno del Sovrasfruttamento di un utente cade prima del 2 agosto significa che la sua impronta personale sulla natura è superiore alla media globale. Se invece cade prima del 24 maggio significa che l’impronta di quell’utente è superiore a quella di un italiano medio.

Divertente e dinamico, il Footprint Calculator esorta inoltre gli utenti a posticipare il loro personale Giorno del Sovrasfruttamento nel calendario, facendo comprendere la responsabilità che essi hanno rispetto alla loro personale impronta ecologica, suggerendo soluzioni di sostenibilità e incitandoli a condividere questi risultati sui social media con l’hashtag #MoveTheDate.

Oltre 1 milione di persone in tutto il mondo, tra cui un grande numero di studenti ed insegnanti, hanno utilizzato il Footprint Calculator del Global Footprint Network da quando è stato lanciato il 2 agosto dello scorso anno nella nuova versione ottimizzata per dispositivi mobili.

Il Calculator si basa sulla metodologia e sui dati più aggiornati del Global Footprint Network, che si occupa di misurare l’impronta ecologica e la biocapacità di oltre 200 nazioni e regioni dal 1961 ad oggi. I risultati di questi calcoli, basati sui dati delle Nazioni Unite, sono disponibili gratuitamente sulla piattaforma online disponibile all’indirizzo data.footprintnetwork.org.

Risorse aggiuntive

Per calcolare il tuo personale Giorno del Sovrasfruttamento e la tua Impronta Ecologica, visita: www.footprintcalculator.org/it (22 maggio 2018)

I risultati relativi all’Impronta Ecologica di tutti i paesi del mondo sono disponibili sulla piattaforma dati aperta del Footprint Explorer: data.footprintnetwork.org

Ulteriori informazioni sul Giorno del Sovrasfruttamento della Terra: www.overshootday.org

Giorni di overshoot paese infografica: www.overshootday.org/newsroom/country-overshoot-days/

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Informazioni su Global Footprint Network
Il Global Footprint Network sta cambiando il modo in cui il mondo gestisce le proprie risorse naturali e risponde ai cambiamenti climatici attraverso:

• METODI DI MISURA semplici, significativi e modulabili;
• IDEE OPERATIVE per il consumo e la disponibilità di risorse naturali
• STRUMENTI ed ANALISI per informare e guidare decisioni consapevoli

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Informazioni su Fondazione Monte dei Paschi di Siena
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Contatti multimediali:

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Global Footprint Network
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