We call those the National Footprint and Biocapacity Accounts. A rich and accessible introduction to the theory and practice of the approach is available in the book Ecological Footprint: Managing Our Biocapacity Budget This organization independently owns and produces the Accounts, with the goal to provide them with highest reliability, so they can inform public and private decision-making in an unbiased way. It also has the ambition to build a coalition of countries , supported by a rigorous global academic network, to advance its work.
How does your country compare? Visit our Ecological Footprint Explorer open data platform to find the answer. Today humanity uses the equivalent of 1. This means it now takes the Earth one year and eight months to regenerate what we use in a year. We use more ecological resources and services than nature can regenerate through overfishing, overharvesting forests, and emitting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than forests can sequester. Every year Global Footprint Network raises awareness about global ecological overshoot with our Earth Overshoot Day campaign, which attracts media attention around the world.
This abrupt change from having a large biocapacity reserve to running a biocapacity deficit is a tragedy. But the even bigger tragedy is the loss of biodiversity due to the destruction of mature ecosystems which were habitat to many unique species. Professor John Woinarski and others predict that this area may be condemned to grow back as weedy scrub Pickrell , unable to support its native species. This is an irreparable loss of special habitat, and with it, its native species.
Biocapacity is our greatest asset and these fires demonstrate how fragile biocapacity can be. With climate change and resource overuse, we place greater demand on ecosystems that are essential for the survival of not only humanity but wildlife species as well.
Growing demand met by less robust biocapacity becomes a dangerous combination. The lesson from these tragic fires is that our excessive demand is undermining our life-support systems in multiple arenas. The even bigger lesson is that it is in our interest to take resource security far more seriously.
Humanity is currently demanding as much from nature as if we lived on 1. Yet, there is no escaping the context of our only and finite planet going forward. Both aspects one-planet compatibility and well-being for all define the framework for one-planet prosperity, a safe operating space that requires building through careful design.
The only alternative available to us is one-planet misery, where one-planet compatibility is imposed to humanity by disaster. Opportunities for action are infinite, grouped into five key areas.
The choices we make today will determine whether or not humanity is able to reach one-planet prosperity. The Ecological Footprint and biocapacity calculations are done on a yearly basis. Since is the latest year with full accounts, we use as a reference year. The ecological footprint is the demand on and the supply of nature. Promoted by the Global Footprint Network , the ecological footprint can help individuals understand their consumption and impact on the planet; countries improve sustainability and well-being, and local leaders optimize investments for public projects.
The demand side measures the ecological assets a population needs to produce the natural resources it consumes and to absorb its carbon emissions and other waste. These natural resources include livestock and fish products, timber, plant-based food, and fiber products. Biocapacity is the capacity of a given biologically productive area to generate a supply of renewable resources and to absorb its wastes. The ecological footprint and biocapacity are expressed in global hectares. Global hectares are comparable and standardized with world average productivity.
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