CLUM Country Package

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The CLUM (Consumption Land-Use Matrix) provides a breakdown of a country’s consumption Footprint into its components following the UN COICOP classification. The CLUM is the base dataset used in all top-down subnational Ecological Footprint assessments, including city Footprints and personal Footprint Calculators. Each consumption category can also be divided into three dimensions:

• Short-lived consumption directly paid for by households (like bread or clothes);
• Short-lived consumption directly paid for by government (like milk distributed in schools or electricity for street lighting); or
• Long-lasting consumption (houses, roads, machines, also called gross fixed capital formation).

How is the CLUM produced?

CLUMs are produced using Multi-Regional Input Output (MRIO)-based Footprint data, which allows us to understand the flow of resources through the global supply chain. MRIO modeling is an economic approach which track financial flows between countries’ major economic sectors. MRIO approaches can be extended from financial flows to estimate resource flows by incorporating data from the National Footprint and Biocapacity Accounts. The MRIO-based Footprint data allows us to track detailed resource flows between countries’ major economic sectors to further sub-categorize national Footprint data into more specific consumption and industry related components.

For more detailed information on MRIO, see here.

Licensing fees are $5,000 for one country and 10 hours of technical support, which includes interpretation of the data, underlying methodology (NFBA,MRIO,CLUM), and application feasibility. To initiate the licensing process, please complete the form below. All fields on this form with an asterisk (*) must be completed before it can be submitted.