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Global Footprint Network Wins Science Magazine Data Stories Contest
Global Footprint Network won the corporate entity category for Science Magazine Data Stories Contest on May 4. Our 90-second video was created as part of the April launch of our new Ecological Footprint Explorer open data platform. The video was created by Alexandre Magnin... 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
Sustainable Shaper
Sustainable Switzerland, a platform and event series run by the Neue Zürcher Zeitung media company, awarded Global Footprint Network co-founder, Mathis Wackernagel, with the Sustainable Shaper distinction on September 2, 2025. He received it in the category of “Knowledge & Opinion”. This distinction was awarded... Read MoreSustainable Shaper Award (by NZZ)
Sustainable Switzerland (Neue Zürcher Zeitung AG) presented Mathis Wackernagel a Sustainable Shaper Award to honor his entrepreneurial, scientific, or social efforts, initiate tangible change and drive sustainable development in and from Switzerland (September 2, 2025) Read MoreUniversity of Siena honorary degree recipient Dr. Mathis Wackernagel
Global Footprint Network founder Dr. Mathis Wackernagel was recognized as a Sustainable Shaper in the category Vision & Innovation. Awarded by Sustainable Switzerland (Neue Zürcher Zeitung AG) to honor individuals who, through their entrepreneurial, scientific, or social efforts, initiate tangible change... Read MoreRecognition by Vice-Governor of the Province of Córdoba
Recognition by Vice-Governor of the Province of Córdoba, Argentina, for Global Footprint Network and Mathis Wackernagel to promote sustainability (July 1, 2025) Read More
Stagflation and Overshoot
Stagflation and Overshoot: Economic Impacts of Inaction and What We Can Do By Mathis Wackernagel What Is Stagflation and Why Is It Back? Stagflation, a mix of economic stagnation and inflation, was once thought to be a rare economic... Read More