Rapport Planète Vivante
(Cette page n\'est pas encore disponible en français)Living Planet Report
Every two years, Global Footprint Network along with WWF and the Zoological Society of London issues the Living Planet Report, which uses complementary measures to explore the changing state of global biodiversity and of human consumption. The report documents the extent of human pressure on the planet, how that compares across nations, and how it is impacting the natural world.
Human Pressure on the Planet Growing
The Living Planet Report 2008, released October 29, 2008, shows that at the current rate humanity is using natural resources and producing waste, by the early 2030s we will require the resources of two planets to meet our needs.
In 2005, the most recent year for which data are available, humanity’s Ecological Footprint was 31 per cent larger than the planet’s capacity to produce these resources, according to the report. This ecological overshoot means that it now takes about one year and three months for the Earth to regenerate what we use in a single year. Overshoot has increased by 5 percent since the last Living Planet Report was published in 2006. The carbon Footprint, which accounts for the use of fossil fuels, is almost half the total global Footprint, and is its fastest-growing component, increasing more than eleven fold from 1961to 2005.
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