Rethinking the ways we produce, consume and exchange has become crucial to move towards a society where we can all live well within the boundaries of our planet. As cultures and norms are core determinants of our rich and diverse lifestyles, they will need to be considered as we rethink the way societies are organized, resourced and maintained. This global programme aims to identify and build on opportunities to promote sustainable lifestyles for an effective and inclusive shift towards sustainability, doing so with a large and increasing network of partners from around the globe.
Our former calculator was several years old. Global Footprint Network updates its data and methodology every year. Our new calculator features our latest data and methodology and will be much easier to update each year.
To create country-specific calculators, Global Footprint Network works with local partners to gather regional data on resource consumption. Global Footprint Network is inviting corporate, government, and NGO partners to help us add additional cities, countries and languages to our new calculator.
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BotonSocial por: SocialEmpresa. The Ecological Footprint measures the ecological assets that a given population requires to produce the natural resources it consumes including plant-based food and fiber products, livestock and fish products, timber and other forest products, space for urban infrastructure and to absorb its waste, especially carbon emissions. The Ecological Footprint tracks the use of six categories of productive surface areas: cropland, grazing land, fishing grounds, built-up land, forest area, and carbon demand on land.
But the claim that four Earths would be needed if everyone lived like Americans is still a striking one. It has been recurring on social media at least since , when science writer Tim De Chant produced this infographic illustrating how much land would be required if seven billion people lived like the populations of nine selected countries from Bangladesh to the United Arab Emirates. De Chant was using a subset of data produced by the Global Footprint Network GFN , which has been attempting the tricky business of measuring the impact of humans on the planet since They do this by using published statistics on consumption and the amount of land or sea used to produce the quantity of goods consumed.
The key questions for GFN, he says, are: "If there is one planet - how much planet is available per person and how much planet do we use per person. The answers are expressed in an unusual unit - the global hectare, defined as a biologically productive hectare with world-average bioproductivity.
The average American, says GFN, uses seven global hectares, compared to a global average of 2. It's this figure of seven global hectares that allows Wackernagel and his colleagues to calculate that it would take four Earths - or to be precise, 3. However, the US does not consume the most on this measure.
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