Sentences with phrase «in ecological overshoot»

If you have a population that's in ecological overshoot, it eventually collapses.

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.

This difference means that humanity is in ecological overshoot, currently using at least 50 % more of nature's goods and services than ecosystems regenerate [5]--[7].

Not exact matches

If we cut food waste in half and ate less protein - intensive foods and more cereals, vegetables, and fruits, we could reduce humanity's Ecological Footprint 16 % and #movethedate of Overshoot Day back 42 days.

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

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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.»

The earliest Earth Overshoot Day ever, on August 2, was big news in France this year, making the front page of Le Monde and prompting a 3 - minute video from Nicolas Hulot, the French Minister of Ecological Transition.

In fact, August 13 is Earth Overshoot Day, the date when we have exhausted the planet's ecological budget for 2015.

China's revised coal numbers result in a 1.6 % increase in humanity's Ecological Footprint, pulling Earth Overshoot Day four days earlier.

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.

August 13 is Earth Overshoot Day, the date when humanity's demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year.

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.

Therefore, we are already exceeding the planet's carrying capacity in what amounts to «ecological overshoot» [1], [2].

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?

Hence, virtually all of the ecological overshoot comes from the EF's measure of the rate at which carbon dioxide is accumulating in the atmosphere.

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.

The size of the EF carbon footprint, and hence the entirety of the ecological overshoot claimed by the EF methodology, comes down to a single number representing the assumed rate of carbon uptake in forests.

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.

It predicted that during the first half of the 21st century the ongoing growth in the human ecological footprint would stop - either through catastrophic «overshoot and collapse» - or through well - managed «peak and decline.»

Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity's demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year.

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 Overshoot Day.

Earth Overshoot Day is computed by dividing the planet's biocapacity (the amount of ecological resources Earth is able to generate that year), by humanity's Ecological Footprint (humanity's demand for that year), and multiplying by 365, the number of dayecological resources Earth is able to generate that year), by humanity's Ecological Footprint (humanity's demand for that year), and multiplying by 365, the number of dayEcological Footprint (humanity's demand for that year), and multiplying by 365, the number of days in 2017:

See «Ecological Footprints and Bio-Capacity: Essential Elements in Sustainability Assessment» by William E. Rees: «humanity had already «overshot» the long - term human carrying capacity of the Earth by about 20 % in 1999 — the whole planet is in deficit.

(A population can live in overshoot — i.e., beyond its ecological means — for a considerable period by depleting vital ecosystems and non-renewable resource stocks.)»

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 populations.