What We Do
Creating a world where everyone can live well, within the means of one planet, is going to take all of us pulling together toward this common goal.
The scale of our challenge is enormous. Nothing short of a revolution in our economies, societies, energy choices and lifestyles is required.
At Global Footprint Network our programs are designed to influence decision makers at all levels of society and to create a critical mass of powerful institutions using the Footprint to put an end to ecological overshoot and get our economies back into balance.
- Our Ten-in-Ten campaign is engaging national governments to establish the Ecological Footprint as a prominent, globally accepted metric as ubiquitous as the GDP.
- Our stewardship of the National Footprint Accounts is bringing new levels of scientific quality and precision to the Ecological Footprint.
- Our Sustainable Human Development initiative is defining what it really means to meet human needs while maintaining natural capital.
- Our programs for cities and businesses are extending the Footprint into new domains, developing new methodologies and tools and building the market for Ecological Footprinting.
- Our work developing international Footprint Standards is advancing the integrity and comparability of Footprint applications worldwide.
- Our network of 90-plus Partners, located on six continents, is comprised of the world’s leading Footprint practitioners and users and plays a vital role in guiding our research agenda and making Footprinting relevant and practical.
Our intent is that together these initiatives will bring about new solutions and spark a global dialogue about ecological limits and overshoot. The results we expect will redirect billions of dollars of investment flows toward making sustainable human development a reality.