A drought very difficultthe publication of glacier perennialabnormal heat waves e food insecurity more and more widespread. The state of our ecosystems is critical. Added to these alarm signals is that of the data: Today is itEarth Overshoot Day 2022the day calculated every year from Global Footprint Networkwhere the world population is practically exhausted all the resources that the country manages to regenerate. This date has been valid for more than 50 years expected. Greenhouse gas emissions, overexploitation and poor protection of territories are all factors that irreparably aggravate the situation ecological deficit of humanity. According to experts, 2022 is the worse give it seventies.
2020, dominated by the pandemic of COVID-19, had boded well in terms of resource consumption. The overshoot day was that August 22nd, with a considerable lag compared to the average of the last few decades. The same cannot be said for 2022: this year’s date it’s the worstalong with that of 2018 (also on July 28). falls well 156 days before of the year end. Since the tradition of calculus began just four years ago, we had surpassed it exploitation threshold so early. The world population uses the 74% more than ecosystems can regenerate. That means we would have to do it to keep everyone happy 1.75 earths.
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The National Footprint & Biocapacity Accounts (NFA) – the models developed by Footprint Data Foundation (FoDaFo) and byUniversity of York (Canada), with data from the United Nations – taking into account the differences between the different states and between their ecological footprint. The global amounts 2.7 Gha (global hectares) per person. This is the most effective way to calculate it inequality between the demands of people in biologically productive areas (biocapacity) and the ability of the earth to regenerate them. It therefore includes the demand for food, wood, infrastructure material, but also for the related activities CO2 emissions. Exactly these form the 60% of the global footprint. Many countries like United States, Canada, Australia and Russia, they have been in ecological debt since the beginning of the year. Others had their national surplus day later, like Italy that May 15th. So that we haven’t reached the load limit so far, there have been a few virtuous populations, with a small ecological footprint. Some will never reach the threshold exceeding national resources. But given the level of consumption by the richest countries, that’s not enough.
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About 3 billion people – according to the Global Footprint Network – they live in countries that they eat more food of what they can produce. some like Italy, Swiss and United Kingdom You have a sufficient income to import it. Others, for example the Nepal – only those who can cultivate and breed 78% of his food – he fights for access to the food resources in the market. In fact, its per capita income is only the same 9% the world average. Many populations ofAsia andAfrica. Especially after that war in Ukraine revealed the fragility our distribution chain Grain. China and India are also at the limit. If you add goods other than food, 5.8 billion people consume more than their territory can regenerate. At least 8 billion then (the 72% of residents of the earth) live in lands that have already passed awayNational Overshoot Daythat is, they are short of resources.
Based on these estimates, with the ecological debt accumulated since the 1970’s, we would have to do that 19 years without consumption to the regenerate the planet. The alternative is a gradual but equally decisive intervention. The Global Footprint Network gathers on the platform The Power of Possibilitiesa row of useful actions to limit resource depletion. Just cut in half food waste would allow you to move the date 13 days later. there Sustainable mobilitywith a use of bicycle equal to what is being done in the Netherlands, by 10 days. while using energy wind powerat the current level of Denmark and Germany, from another 9 days. According to experts, if we manage to delay crossing the threshold by at least 6 days a year by 2050 to meet global consumption, it will exist again enough what the earth can do regenerate.