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Making the Sustainable Development Goals consistent with sustainability
This month, the UN General Assembly (UNGA 72) will convene in New York City for its 72nd Regular Session. The summit’s theme is “Focusing on People: Striving for Peace and a Decent Life for All on a Sustainable Planet.” The... Read More
Attention educators:
calculator troubleshooting
Updated September 30, 2020 Dear Educators, Thank you for using our Ecological Footprint Calculator in your classroom! If you are having some problems using the calculator, we are offering you some suggestions here as well as some background on why...
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Earth Overshoot Day 2017 Highlights
2017 was an exceptional year for building the momentum to #movethedate! Read More
El Poder Ecológico: Our Colombian partnership to advance sustainability
This July, Global Footprint Network was fortunate to host government representatives from Nariño, Colombia, for a two-week work session at our offices in Oakland in support of their effort to transform their province into a green economy. After decades of... Read More
World Resources Forum 2017
Mathis Wackernagel, Global Footprint Network CEO, is a plenary speaker at WRF 2017 in Geneva, Switzerland. The Forum consists of two days of plenary debates, partner workshops, scientific sessions, exhibition, press conferences, and more. It is designed to deliver open... Read MoreEarth Overshoot Day 2017 Coverage
A roundup of Earth Overshoot Day coverage by media around the world. Read More
North Rhine-Westphalia releases Ecological Footprint analysis
If the global population lived like citizens of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), we would need 3.3 Earths, according to a report presented by the German state’s environmental minister in a press conference in Düsseldorf in December. The Ecological Footprint was the... Read More
Achtung, Liebe Schweiz!
The carbon concentration in the atmosphere is rising fast; the Paris Climate Agreement requires us to leave the fossil fuel economy well before 2050; and Earth Overshoot Day is already in early August. Could it be that climate change and... Read More