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New study in Nature Sustainability shows 72% of the world’s population lacks resource security
April 26, 2021 (Oakland, CA) – In 2017, 72% of people around the world lived in countries with both natural resource deficits and below world-average income, according to a new... More ›
Slow Food, Global Footprint Network, Low Impact Fishers of Europe (LIFE) and GOB Menorca launch joint project to accelerate the transition to sustainable food systems
funded by Italy, March 9th, 2021 – Foodnected, a new project designed to promote the transition to sustainable and fair food systems in the Mediterranean region,... More ›
It’s official: Footprints for monitoring biodiversity health
photo credit: UN Biodiversity All five mechanisms that drive down biodiversity are symptoms of ecological overshoot (see also the adjacent blue box). Overshoot is caused by the human economy’s demand... More ›
Conversation with Steven Tebbe: Addressing the ecological deficit is about creating a new framework
“We’ll know we’ve succeeded when we’ve made our work obsolete,” says Global Footprint Network’s new CEO. Read on as we take a deep dive into his thoughts on addressing humanity’s... More ›
The Stockholm Syndrome
What does the Stockholm syndrome have to do with resource security? Read on! 50 years ago, from June 5–16, 1972, the United Nations held its largest ever gathering on development... More ›Events
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Overshoot is humanity’s second largest risk in the 21st century. This event will explore the options that we have once we accept our context. Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity has exhausted nature’s budget for the year. In 2022, Earth Overshoot Day fell on Thursday 28 July. Human demand on nature can be...
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EVENT: How ecological overshoot is shifting economic rules
Overshoot is humanity’s second largest risk in the 21st century. This event will explore the options that we have once we accept our context. Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity has exhausted nature’s budget for the year. In 2022, Earth Overshoot Day fell on Thursday 28 July. Human demand on nature can be...
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WEF: Special Address by António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations
The World Economic Forum convened its 53rd Annual Meeting in January to reaffirm the value and imperative of dialogue and public-private cooperation, not only to navigate the current cascading crises... More ›THE ASAHI SHIMBUN: 8 billion people are straining our Earth to the breaking point
The world population surpassed 8 billion in November, according to an estimate by the United Nations. The evolution of human civilization has been the driving growth of the global population.... More ›朝日新聞: 人口８０億人 地球の限界を考える
世界の人口が昨年１１月に国連の推計で８０億人を超えた。 人間は文明の発達とともに養える人口を増やしてきた。技術が進歩して食糧を増産し、利用できる土地や資源も広がった。農業や産業革命といった大きな技術革新で急速に増えてきた。 今後、人間が必要とする物資を効率的に得る飛躍的な技術革新が起きたり、人口が減少して食糧やエネルギーを分かち合ったりして暮らしていけば、明るい未来を描けそうだ、といった楽観論もあるかもしれない。 半面、地球が生産できる生物資源も、利用できる地下資源も無限ではない。 More ›
«3 Fragen zum Klima» | Folge 1: Mathis Wackernagel
Mathis Wackernagel ist ein Schweizer Vordenker im Bereich Nachhaltigkeit. Er ist Präsident der Organisation «Global Footprint Network», einer internationalen Forschungsgruppe... More ›
DIRECTO: Alessandro Galli, protagonista de la nueva Conferencia del ciclo Ciencia y SOS-tenibilidad
El ciclo de conferencias Ciencia y SOS-tenibilidad que inauguramos en 2020 ha permitido conocer algunos de los lideres en activismo... More ›
NANO: Klimakonferenz - Ernüchterung nach Verlängerung
Der große Durchbruch blieb aus. Beschlossen wurde ein Entschädigungsfonds für ärmere Länder, die von den Folgen der Erderwärmung besonders betroffen... More ›