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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 but, more importantly, to drive tangible, system-positive change for the... Read More
Don't reduce your Footprint!
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... Read More
2022: A year in review
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... Read MoreTHE 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. Technological progress has led to increased food production and made... Read 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。 Read 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 in Oakland (Kalifornien), die sich mit dem ökologischen Fussabdruck beschäftigt, einer Art Buchhaltungssystem für natürliche Ressourcen. In «3 Fragen zum... Read 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 for more resources from nature than nature can regenerate. This... Read More