Sentences with phrase «global ecological overshoot»

When you consider all the aspects of our global ecological overshoot, the logical and inevitable conclusion is that we can't have nothing resembling our economy if we want to prevent collapse, and whoever says otherwise pretty much has no idea what he's talking about.

The paper finds that the entirety of the global ecological overshoot consists of carbon emissions, which are translated into a highly uncertain, hypothetical area of forest needed to offset these emissions.

The global ecological overshoot shown in EF calculations [1] has generated an obvious question for policy - makers, scientists, and the public alike: in which ways can we change our natural resource use and land management in order to reduce, and ultimately eliminate, the global overshoot and thereby achieve sustainability?

Conversely, using young forests — which grow faster than more mature ones — as the carbon offset mechanism in the EF balance sheets eliminates the entire global ecological overshoot.

As a thought experiment, when plugging a carbon sequestration rate of 2.6 t C ha − 1 year − 1 or higher into the EF calculation, the entire global ecological overshoot disappears.

The calculator, she says, «helps students understand the relevance of sustainability and global ecological overshoot to their own lives and careers, making them realize that sustainability and climate change is their problem too — and not something to leave to «someone else».»

We now live in a state of global ecological overshoot: allowing carbon dioxide to accumulate in the atmosphere, polluting our air and water ways, and causing natural landscapes to wilt into deserts and icecaps to melt into seas.

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Cutting the carbon component of the global Ecological Footprint in half would #movethedate of Overshoot Day by 89 days.

Mora also underscored our joint efforts, saying, «[the MOU with Global Footprint Network] isn't simply to carry out scientific studies on Nariño's Ecological Footprint and biocapacity, but also to direct our province with concrete actions on how to build a green economy that takes ecological limits into account and move back the date of Earth Overshoot Day, so that our actions with natural resources in the region are sustainabEcological Footprint and biocapacity, but also to direct our province with concrete actions on how to build a green economy that takes ecological limits into account and move back the date of Earth Overshoot Day, so that our actions with natural resources in the region are sustainabecological limits into account and move back the date of Earth Overshoot Day, so that our actions with natural resources in the region are sustainable.»

I support one planet prosperity by donating to Global Footprint Network for their exciting new Ecological Footprint Calculator (to be released by Earth Overshoot Day).

It's now well understood that what's needed to stop this unfolding apocalypse is an emergency transformation of the global economy — a WWII - scale mobilization to rapidly restore a stable climate and reverse ecological overshoot.

According to the most recent data from the Global Footprint Network, humanity as a whole is currently in ecological overshoot, demanding one and a half planets» worth of Earth's biocapacity.

Therefore, in this Perspective, we focus only on the global level and on the assertion that humanity, as a whole, is in a state of planetary ecological overshoot.

Global Footprint Network An organization raising awareness of Earth's current level of ecological overshoot by using ecological footprint data in planning in all public and private enterprise.

To determine the date of Earth Overshoot Day for each year, Global Footprint Network calculates the number of days of that year that Earth's biocapacity suffices to provide for humanity's Ecological Footprint.

For instance, reducing the energy intensity of homes, buildings, and cities will #movethedate of Overshoot Day; halving the carbon component of the global Ecological Footprint would move the date of Overshoot Day by 89 days.

Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management and automation, and Global Footprint Network, an international research organization that has pioneered the Ecological Footprint resource accounting metric, are joining forces to promote sustainable solutions that are available today and estimate their impact on moving the date of Earth Overshooglobal specialist in energy management and automation, and Global Footprint Network, an international research organization that has pioneered the Ecological Footprint resource accounting metric, are joining forces to promote sustainable solutions that are available today and estimate their impact on moving the date of Earth OvershooGlobal Footprint Network, an international research organization that has pioneered the Ecological Footprint resource accounting metric, are joining forces to promote sustainable solutions that are available today and estimate their impact on moving the date of Earth Overshoot Day.

Earth Overshoot Day is hosted and calculated by Global Footprint Network, an international think tank that coordinates research, develops methodological standards and provides decision - makers with a menu of tools to help the human economy operate within Earth's ecological limits.

According to the Global Footprint Network (GFN), an international ecological think tank, as of August 13th, 2015, we have effectively exhausted the amount of natural resources and ecological services that the planet can regenerate this year, reaching what the organization calls Earth Overshoot Day.

Of course, there is another elephant in the room, which is that if our rate of consumption of global resources across the board already far exceeds Earth's ability to replenish them (see «Earth Overshoot Day,» «Ecological Debt Day,» which the Global Footprint Network says that we hit this year on August 20), then it's frightening to think what would happen if every country in the world had a population that consumed like America's or Europe's populaglobal resources across the board already far exceeds Earth's ability to replenish them (see «Earth Overshoot Day,» «Ecological Debt Day,» which the Global Footprint Network says that we hit this year on August 20), then it's frightening to think what would happen if every country in the world had a population that consumed like America's or Europe's populaGlobal Footprint Network says that we hit this year on August 20), then it's frightening to think what would happen if every country in the world had a population that consumed like America's or Europe's populations.