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...
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On 16 February 2023 in Brussels and online, the Sustainable Development Observatory (SDO) of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) will host a hybrid public event to assess the extent of the EU’s current ecological overshoot. It will look into proposals from organised...
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By Mathis Wackernagel, Ph.D., founder and President This blog is dedicated to a young, brilliant student. Back in 1995, she attended one of my lectures in Santiago de Chile about sustainability imperatives and the need “to reduce our Footprint.” I...
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Plus, exciting Food Platform news, moving Earth Overshoot Day with circular businesses, & why you don’t need to reduce your Footprint Ecological Footprinting for biodiversity health Many countries at the recent UN Biodiversity Conference COP 15 supported the call for...
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Before we look forward to 2023, let’s look back at all that we achieved in 2022. We launched new tools to help universities and individuals explore paths to sustainability. The first ever online Footprint Calculator for Universities was launched as...
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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. Technological progress has led to increased food production and made...
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Mathis Wackernagel ist ein Schweizer Vordenker im Bereich Nachhaltigkeit. Er ist Präsident der Organisation «Global Footprint Network», einer internationalen Forschungsgruppe in Oakland (Kalifornien), die sich mit dem ökologischen Fussabdruck beschäftigt, einer Art Buchhaltungssystem für natürliche Ressourcen. In «3 Fragen zum...
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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 for more resources from nature than nature can regenerate. This...
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El ciclo de conferencias Ciencia y SOS-tenibilidad que inauguramos en 2020 ha permitido conocer algunos de los lideres en activismo medioambiental. Cada día somos más conscientes que como sociedad tenemos un gran reto por delante, y que la solución pasa...
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Steven Tebbe means business, our team in top 2% of cited scientists, feature in La Vanguardia, and the best year-end giving opportunity! New CEO Steven Tebbe means business Global Footprint Network’s board of directors welcomes Steven Tebbe as our new...
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