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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
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
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 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