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Everyone Considers Themselves to Be a Special Case
As part of a portrait by Switzerland’s largest media group Tamedia, Mathis Wackernagel discussed in May 2026 how overshoot may affect countries and companies. Mathis makes the case why the narrative of holding ecological overshoot primarily as a resource security... Read More
Country Overshoot Days 2026
In December 2025, Global Footprint Network launched the Country Overshoot Day calendar for 2026. The dates are based on the National Footprint and Biocapacity Accounts, 2025 edition. All the details are available here. To explore its meaning, Mathis Wackernagel was... Read More
Japan’s New Corporate Compass
How Business Footprinting Is Reshaping Sustainability from the Boardroom to the Supply Chain For decades, Japan has been a quiet pioneer in measuring humanity’s demand on our planet, using the power of Ecological Footprint accounting. Now, that foundational work is... Read More
Breaking Bread, Building Futures
by Juliana Carvalho, Maria Elisa Zuppiroli, and Giulia Lombardo Pijola What if tackling climate change started with sharing a meal? Or at least the idea of one? That was the spirit behind Breaking Bread, Building Futures, an online event co-organised... Read More
Latvia - A Green Giant
Latvia is exceptionally biocapacity-rich, with six times more biocapacity per person than the global average. Since biocapacity is the foundation of all resources, this represents a major strategic advantage in a world facing persistent ecological overshoot, climate change, and tightening resource constraints.... Read More