TreeHugger: With entire economies based on selling oil and natural gas to fund massive, rapid growth and a per
capita ecological footprint larger than the United States, the United Arab Emirates is currently one of the most unsustainable places in the world.
While India as a whole demands a significant percent of the world's biocapacity, its per -
capita Ecological Footprint, 0.8 global hectares, is smaller than that in many other countries, and well below the world average of 2.2 global hectares.
Can living in a place with lower per
capita ecological footprint decrease individual footprint?
5.1 hectares: per
capita ecological footprint in Western Europe (subregion's biocapacity: 2.2 hectares, meaning Western Europeans depend on net imports of renewable natural resources and material contributions of nature to people)
This is achieved with a per
capita Ecological Footprint that's just one third of the size of the U.S.'s.
Indians consistently have one of the lowest per
capita Ecological Footprints in the world, among the lowest 15 % of all countries for 2011.
Not exact matches
Below are the top
ecological creditors and debtors ranked by net per
capita footprint.
Most of the global population got almost no
ecological footprint per
capita, while a global minority is sucking out the planet and the rest of the people.
Germany appears to be closing its
ecological deficit, primarily by reducing its per
capita carbon
Footprint and increasing crop biocapacity at the same time.
Italy has the third - highest
Ecological Footprint per capita of Mediterranean countries, trailing France and Slovenia, and fourth - highest ecological deficit per capita of the EU 27 countries (trailing Belgium, Netherlands, an
Ecological Footprint per
capita of Mediterranean countries, trailing France and Slovenia, and fourth - highest
ecological deficit per capita of the EU 27 countries (trailing Belgium, Netherlands, an
ecological deficit per
capita of the EU 27 countries (trailing Belgium, Netherlands, and Cyprus).
Global
Footprint Network's most recent accounts reveal that Earth's biocapacity in 2008 was 12 billion hectares (ha) compared to humanity's
Footprint of 18.2 billion ha, and that the average
Ecological Footprint had reached 2.7 global hectares (gha) per
capita compared to only 1.8 gha of available biocapacity per
capita [5].
Western Europe as a whole has an
ecological footprint of 4.51 gHa / capita versus a biocapacity of 3.03 [GFN Ecological Footprint At
ecological footprint of 4.51 gHa / capita versus a biocapacity of 3.03 [GFN Ecological Footprint Atl
footprint of 4.51 gHa /
capita versus a biocapacity of 3.03 [GFN
Ecological Footprint At
Ecological Footprint Atl
Footprint Atlas 2009].