Sentences with phrase «ecological deficit»

The second section looks at the negative effect of ecological deficits on the food prospect and how to eliminate both soil and water deficits.

For most ecological deficits, we do not have a global estimate of their size.

And in the US, we've already hit Ecological Deficit Day on July 14th of this year, a full month before this global milestone was reached.

A region in ecological deficit meets demand by importing, liquidating its own ecological assets (such as overfishing), and / or emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Today, the majority of countries in the world are running ecological deficits, using more resources than ecosystems within their borders can regenerate.

Find out more about how much land area it takes to support your personal lifestyle with the GFN Footprint Calculator, and read about the causes and conditions that are behind our current ecological deficit at Earth Overshoot Day, as well as learn what you can do to make a difference, both locally and globally.

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, and Cyprus).

The increasing ecological deficit is primarily a result of an increased Ecological Footprint, the majority of which comes from the carbon Footprint.

If this is the case, India is likely to face a widening ecological deficit even if current per - capita levels of resource consumption remain the same.

Clearly, India's current ecological deficit poses a clear challenge to its leaders» ability to improve the quality of life for vast segments of the population now living in poverty.

In addition to the four ecological deficits just described, the worldwide rise in temperature may also be contributing to the desertification of China.

The first section of Part 1 of The Earth Policy Reader describes how ecological deficits are converging to expand deserts in China.

In scores of countries, converging ecological deficits are undermining local economies on a scale that has no precedent.

June 22 marks Germany's Ecological Deficit Day.

Each year we live in ecological deficit — taking more than can be replenished — we draw down the world's reserves of natural resources.

When the global EF is decomposed into its six components (Figure 1), none of the five non-carbon land - use categories has any substantial ecological deficit — suggesting that depletion of cropland, grazing land, forest land, fishing grounds, and built - up land is not occurring on an aggregate, global level.

«Most countries are in ecological deficit, increasingly dependent on potentially unreliable trade in biocapacity,» Rees and Wackernagel wrote.

We can imagine the seriousness of the problem, today, 150 major nations of the world show an ecological deficit.

Already today, 150 major nations of the world show an ecological deficit.

June 30th marks the ecological deficit day of India in 2015.

Germany appears to be closing its ecological deficit, primarily by reducing its per capita carbon Footprint and increasing crop biocapacity at the same time.

When a nation like Greece is in ecological deficit it meets demand by importing, liquidating its own ecological assets and / or using the global commons by emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

When a nation like The Netherlands are in ecological deficit it meets demand by importing, liquidating its own ecological assets and / or using the global commons by emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

When a nation like Portugal is in ecological deficit it meets demand by importing, liquidating its own ecological assets and / or using the global commons by emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

April 13 marks the ecological deficit day of Switzerland.

When a nation like the U.K. is in ecological deficit it meets demand by importing, liquidating its own ecological assets and / or using the global commons by emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

June 14 marks Portugal's Ecological Deficit Day.

April 30 marks the ecological deficit day of the United Kingdom.

May 14 marks China's Ecological Deficit Day.

April 1st marks the ecological deficit day of The Netherlands.

When a nation like Switzerland is in ecological deficit it meets demand by importing, liquidating its own ecological assets and / or using the global commons by emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

When a nation like China is in ecological deficit, it meets demand by importing, liquidating its own ecological assets and / or using the global commons by emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

When a nation like Germany is in ecological deficit it meets demand by importing, liquidating its own ecological assets and / or using the global commons by emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

When a nation like Italy is in ecological deficit it meets demand by importing, liquidating its own ecological assets and / or using the global commons by emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

When a nation like India is in ecological deficit it meets demand by importing, liquidating its own ecological assets and / or using the global commons by emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

May 19 marks the ecological deficit day of Greece.

April 5 marks the ecological deficit day of Italy.

For the rest of the year, we are maintaining our ecological deficit by drawing down local resource stocks and accumulating carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

COLE BAY — A lack of local food production, unrestricted and uninspected development, insufficient use of renewable energy, solid waste issues, no terrestrial conservation areas, and ineffective public transport have resulted in St. Maarten running at an ecological deficit,» says environmental agency St....

If we could apply this «fix», it would certainly increase our estimates of ecological deficits.

In 2015, the Ecological Deficit Day of the United States landed on July 14, according to our new report, «State of the States: A New Perspective on...

In some areas of the world, the implications of ecological deficits can be devastating, leading to resource loss, ecosystem collapse, debt, poverty, famine, and war.