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Humans use as much ecological resources as if we lived on 1.75 Earths (source). The Ecological Footprint is the only metric that compares the resource demand of individuals, governments, and businesses against Earth's capacity for biological regeneration.

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It’s official: Footprints for monitoring biodiversity health

photo credit: UN Biodiversity All five mechanisms that drive down biodiversity are symptoms of ecological overshoot (see also the adjacent blue box). Overshoot is caused by the human economy’s demand for more resources from nature than nature can regenerate. This insight was core to a proposal for the UN Biodiversity Conference COP 15. Several countries... View Full Blog

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