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World Sustainability Award

Mathis Wackernagel, co-founder and President of Global Footprint Network, received the 2018 World Sustainability Award. The Award honors individual researchers or research teams who have made an outstanding academic or societal contribution to sustainability. Mathis accepted the award at the... Read More

California hosted a high-level climate forum! Now what?

Climate change urges us to design our economy anew.  By Mathis Wackernagel, Co-founder and president, Global Footprint Network Yes, there was excitement. More than 4,000 governors, mayors, ministers, entrepreneurs, civil society organizations, and CEOs of some of the world’s biggest... Read More

Global Climate Action Summit
One Planet Progress Events

Driving Success in a One-Planet Context “One Planet” is not a metaphor, but a quantitative recognition of our context. How can businesses succeed considering humanity is already demanding more than Earth’s ecosystems renew? One-planet companies are those who have a... Read More

New research to support sustainable fishing in the Mediterranean

The Mediterranean consumes 70 per cent more fish than the global average and nearly all (93 per cent) Mediterranean fish stocks are over-fished. Global Footprint Network is collaborating with WWF’s Marine Initiative and other partners to encourage sustainable small-scale fishing... Read More