Global Footprint Network

The Global Footprint Network is a think tank established in 2003 ( think tank ) in the environment. The network was founded by Mathis Wackernagel and Susan Burns as a non-profit organization and is headquartered in Oakland, California. Global Footprint Network has two additional offices in Belgium and in Switzerland ( Geneva). Global Footprint Network develops and supports various methods of measurement of sustainable development to promote. One of these instruments is the Ecological Footprint, which is also known as the Ecological Footprint.

Work

The Ecological Footprint measures how many biological resources available to us, and how much we consume. He also documented, which populations and what activities consume as many resources. The Ecological Footprint is a data-driven measuring instrument that calculates a " statement " of nature by the National Footprint Accounts. Global Footprint Network has set by the Ecological Footprint method, a worldwide standard for the measurement of global resources. The Global Footprint Network has over one hundred partner organizations, such as WWF, Bank Sarasin and the British Commission of Experts New Economics Foundation. Global Footprint Network also works with individuals, organizations, cities, countries, industries and NGOs.

Target

The goal of the Global Footprint Network is to create a sustainable world in which all people live in dignity can be made possible within the natural capacity of our earth. The Ecological Footprint, Global Footprint Network Accounting via the human consumption of natural resources and the actual situation. Due to these facts, Global Footprint Network would like to open a global dialogue on the promotion of sustainable development. Global Footprint want the people to the natural wealth as much heed such as the development of stock prices. Only by considering and involving its natural capacity, a long-term economic development are secured. Global Footprint Network speaks therefore included architects, urban planners, politicians and economists. To pursue this goal, Global Footprint Network, the Ecological Footprint is as a measuring instrument available with the aid of a scientific basis can be made to bring about social change. In the years 2012 and 2013 was chosen as one of the world's top 100 NGOs from the Global Footprint Network Global Journal.

Earth Overshoot Day

Earth Overshoot Day marks the day in the year when people begin to ask more natural resources than the earth can provide and reproduce in a year. On this day, humanity exceeds the capacity of natural resources. The overexploitation of natural resources begins. In 2012, he was on 22 August. The higher the overshoot, the earlier in the year begins the Earth Overshoot Day. Global Footprint Network shows through the Ecological Footprint how big the human demand for ecological resources ( ecological footprint or footprint) and how many of these natural resources actually available ( biocapacity ).

Publications (selection)

  • Mathis Wackernagel; Bert Beyers: The Ecological Footprint. The world re-measured. European publishing house, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-931705-32-9
  • WWF (2012 ) Living Planet Report 2012
  • Bert Beyers, Barbara Kus, Thora Amend & Andrea Fleischhauer: Big Foot on a Small Planet?. Accounting with the Ecological Footprint. Volume 10 of the series " Sustainability Has Many Faces ".
  • Various case studies for national, regional and local governments
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