About Us
Global Footprint Network helps people, organizations, and countries succeed in the predictable future of more climate disruption and natural resource constraints. We offer:Metrics
that are simple, meaningful, effective, and scalableActionable Insights
about people's resource consumption and nature's regenerative capacityTools
and analysis to guide advantageous decisions in the context of global overshootMISSION AND VISION
Global Footprint Network, an international nonprofit organization founded in 2003, envisions a future where all can thrive within the means of our one planet.
This vision requires ending overshoot by design, not by disaster. Our mission is to engender the desire to end overshoot through intentional design, supported by empowering analytics.
Global Footprint Network has been internationally recognized for success.
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Sustainable Shaper Award (by NZZ)
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University of Siena honorary degree recipient Dr. Mathis Wackernagel
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Recognition by Vice-Governor of the Province of Córdoba
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Nobel Sustainability Trust
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Colombian Parliament honors Dr. Mathis Wackernagel
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Fondazione Geoknowledge
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University of Stirling honorary degree recipient Dr. Mathis Wackernagel
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Dr. Mathis Wackernagel and Dr. Alessandro Galli rank in world top 2% of cited published scientists
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Population Matters Change Champion
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World Sustainability Award
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International Association for Impact Assessment's Global Environment Award
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RECYCLAPOLIS National Sustainability Award
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ISSP Sustainability Hall of Fame Inductees Susan Burns and Mathis Wackernagel
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Prix Nature Swisscanto
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Boulding Award
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Blue Planet Prize
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Binding Prize
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Zayed International Prize for the Environment
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Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship
Supported by a Global Team
We are scientists at heart. Scientists who love the outdoors. We measure everything and use data and facts to guide decisions. Optimistic and persistent, we pursue systems change to achieve sustainability around the globe.
Partner comprise more than
70 organizations around the world.
What does the word “footprint” mean?
Today, it’s less likely to refer to the tread mark your sneaker leaves in the dirt, and more to the imprint you’ll leave on the planet. So said New York Times writer William Safire (1929-2009) in a 2008 “On Language” column. In the column, Safire described how the concept of the Ecological Footprint was developed by The University of British Columbia Professor William Rees and Global Footprint Network co-founder Mathis Wackernagel.