An analysis by Global Footprint Network and Greenings shows that no country’s national strategy meaningfully recognizes ecological overshoot, despite growing evidence that resource security now underpins economic stability. Check out the press release here https://overshoot.footprintnetwork.org/newsroom/prepared-for-the-predictable For more background visit https://footprintnetwork.org/prepared-for-the-predictable
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Most policy discussions about sustainability focus on emission targets, biodiversity commitments, or climate finance. A new report from Global Footprint Network and Greenings, “Prepared for the Predictable? Overshoot and the Failure of Countries to Ready Themselves,” takes a different angle....
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Imagine trying to grade the economic strategies of forty different countries for how seriously they take resource security, using documents that range from five-year development plans to budget speeches to national security reviews, written in a dozen languages, by governments...
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Earth Overshoot Day now falls nearly five months before year’s end, meaning a significant share of global economic activity depends on depleting our planet’s resources. This unsustainable pattern accelerates climate disruption and grows resource scarcity, creating serious risks for those...
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El Día del Sobregiro de la Tierra ahora ocurre casi cinco meses antes de que termine el año, lo que significa que una parte significativa de la actividad económica mundial depende de agotar los recursos de nuestro planeta. Este patrón...
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At least it’s not Friday the 13th—but on March 13, the U.S. will reach its Overshoot Day for the year 2025. What is this Overshoot Day? If everyone in the world lived like U.S. residents, humanity would have exhausted its...
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Humanity’s escalating ecological overshoot, demanding over 75% more from nature than ecosystems can regenerate, has triggered climate disruption, biodiversity loss, and resource depletion, undermining global stability. While climate change understandably dominates environmental discourse, it is often framed as a “free-rider...
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This romantic song Cole Porter wrote in 1953 stands in sharp contrast to the current U.S. administration’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement. This decision reflects the administration’s view that the potential “disease” of climate change is less...
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Global Footprint Network co-founder Dr. Mathis Wackernagel received this year’s Sustainability Award at the Nobel Sustainability Trust‘s 2024 Summit at the University of California, Berkeley. You can see more about the ceremony here. He was recognized for his leadership in implementing sustainability...
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On the tail of the recent biodiversity conference, COP16 in Calí, Colombia, Global Footprint Network and European Topic Center on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (ETC BE) are excited to announce their new publication “Exploring the societal factors enabling to halt...
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