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Companies' value creation in times of overshoot

In just seven months, humanity consumes as much from nature as Earth can regenerate in a year. Earth Overshoot Day marks when humanity’s demand for ecological resources exceeds what Earth can renew in that year. Despite global efforts to mitigate... Read More

Earth Overshoot Day 2024 approaching

This year’s Earth Overshoot Day falls on August 1st: Humanity will have used nature’s resource budget for the entire year, according to our calculations, building on the National Footprint and Biocapacity Accounts, now maintained by York University under the governance... Read More

Ecological Footprint Explorer Open Data Platform Launches

OAKLAND, CA, April 5, 2017—Ecological Footprint data for over 200 countries is now freely available, searchable and usable at Ecological Footprint Explorer, the new open data platform that Global Footprint Network launches on April 5 at data.footprintnetwork.org. By offering researchers,... Read More

Huffington Post: How Will Coal Make America Great Again?

The Trump Administration says undoing the Clean Power Plan would help the economy and bring back coal jobs. But our latest data show Trump’s climate policies run counter to significant 21st-century gains the United States has made decoupling economic expansion... Read More