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GLOBAL FOOTPRINT NETWORK ANNUAL REPORT 01 LETTER FROM THE FOUNDERS

02 HOW WE CAN BEND THE CURVE

04 NATIONS THE FOOTPRINT AS A KEY INDICATOR BIOCAPACITY AND THE WEALTH OF NATIONS

08 CITIES AT THE FOREFRONT OF CHANGE

10 HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INVESTING IN LASTING HUMAN PROGRESS

12 SCIENCE STRENGTHENING THE TOOL

14 COMMUNICATIONS RAISING UNDERSTANDING OF RESOURCE LIMITS INFLUENCING WORLD VIEW

16 PARTNERSHIP EXPANDING OUR REACH

18 OUR SUPPORTERS

20 WHO WE ARE

24 FINANCIALS

25 LOOKING AHEAD LETTER FROM THE FOUNDERS

The past year drew to a close with a highly anticipated event: the meeting of the world’s governments in Copenhagen to address the crisis of climate change. It ended with what were, for many of us, disappointed hopes for signiﬁ cant multi-lateral commitments around carbon reduction.

But at Global Footprint Network, we are enabling meaningful action despite the lack of binding international agreements. Our work with countries, cities and the corporate sector begins with a simple message: it is in your best interest to act boldly and quickly to make your economies less resource dependent, no matter what the result of international accords.

Just as 2008 and 2009 saw the crumbling of our unsustainable ﬁ nancial systems, the writing is on the wall for our resource-intensive economies. The fact is, without a strong climate agreement, the pressure on ecological services will intensify more rapidly, and access to those services will become increasingly unpredictable. Those governments that can retool their economies to be healthy and robust while staying within ecological limits will be best positioned to meet the future.

Ultimately, it will be this alignment of economic self-interest and international agreements that will allow us to “bend the curve” – returning our economies to a size and scale that ﬁ t within the capacity of the planet.

This approach, informed by Ecological Footprint accounting and scenario tools, is changing the way leaders think about resource constraints and the future. This year we made strides in improving the utility of Ecological Footprint data for weighing policy options. We saw governments commit to speciﬁ c Footprint reduction targets, put major investments into renewable energy and make signiﬁ cant policy shifts.

With the help of our partners and donors, we are driving a systemic shift: one that will enable leaders to direct investments and shape policies that will make them less vulnerable to ecological constraints. Our approach invites cities, countries and enterprises to become signiﬁ cantly less resource-dependent so that they can thrive, rather than fail, in an eco- logically constrained future. And, in preparing for their own future, they will take actions that will help secure a sustainable world for everyone.

Together, we can affect the shift necessary to change our trajectory, away from ever- escalating ecological demand and toward a sustainable human future.

Mathis Wackernagel Susan Burns President C.E.O. 02 HOW WE CAN BEND THE CURVE TRENDING TOWARD A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

For the past ﬁ ve decades the trend of human demand on nature has gone in one direction: upward. Our increasing population, growing per capita consumption and resource-intensive models of growth have demanded ever more capacity from nature – for food, raw materials, and absorbing rising levels of carbon dioxide.

2.5 80% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions Slower population growth

2.0 20% reduction in consumption Doubling of crop yields Ecological debt 1.5

BIOCAPACITY 1.0 Number of Planet Earths

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Figure depicts one of many possible scenarios for how humanity can get out of overshoot.

As the world is beginning to understand, the crisis of our changing climate is not a crisis in isolation. Rather, it is one (albeit alarming) symptom of a larger trend: Humanity is simply demanding more from nature than it can provide. The effects of this imbalance are reaching every corner of our natural world, from species extinctions and water and food shortages, to disappearing forests and depleted fi sheries. It is a problem that, we believe, can begin to be addressed through robust and relevant resource accounting tools such as the Ecological Footprint. Our experience has shown that as nations pay attention to their ecological balance sheets, their priorities shift to refl ect greater interest in preserving and managing natural capital. he [fi nancial] crisis doesn’t only make us free to imagine other models, “T another future, another world. It obliges us to do so.” – Nicolas Sarkozy, French President

The Footprint provides us with a measure that accounts for carbon emissions, but also captures other elements of human demand, such as our pressure on food sources, the quantity of living resources required to make the goods we consume, and the amount of land we take out of production when we pave it over to build cities and roads. But the Footprint also operates at a deeper level, providing a context for the questions that need to be asked in order to reshape our economic system: Are our innovations being implemented at the speed and scale necessary to reverse current trends? If not, what else is needed? The Footprint provides a clear, measurable goal, and an accounting system with which to assess humanity’s progress toward that goal. And, in the process, the Footprint challenges long-held beliefs about our focus on economic growth. On a practical level, we are providing the tools that enable decision-makers at all levels to weigh policy choices and investment options. On a strategic level, we are working to help leaders recognize the importance of maintaining biocapacity for the well-being of their own countries and societies, as well as the world as a whole. Understanding and accounting for ecological limits will enable us to identify new models of progress – away from those that have driven the arc of human need ever upward and toward those that enable us to live within our means.

aving civilization is not a spectator sport. Each of “S us must push for rapid change. And we must be armed with a plan outlining the changes needed.”

– Lester R. Brown Author Plan B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization Global Footprint Network Advisory Council Member 04 NATIONS THE FOOTPRINT AS A KEY INDICATOR

In the last 50 years, nations have embraced Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as the key measure of success, and the value placed upon it has literally transformed the world. But now, in the realm of economics, a major shift is underway. The idea of GDP as the central indicator for the health of our societies has been ofﬁ cially knocked from its pedestal.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy convened the Stiglitz Commission, which included Nobel prize-winning economists, to propose new national indicators of progress. The report, which included 12 pages on the Ecological Footprint, touched off a widely-publicized dialogue about moving beyond GDP, and its consideration of the Footprint created an opening for Global Footprint Network to help shape the emerging consensus.

The report is just one example of progress this year toward our Ten-in-Ten initiative. Launched in 2005, Ten-in-Ten aims to have 10 nations adopt the Footprint as an indicator on par with GDP within 10 years (by 2015).

Global Footprint Network has developed a ﬁ ve-phase program aimed at helping nations weigh their options and “bend the curve” – that is, shift ecological trends in the direction of sustainability – by making major changes in policy and investment.

PHASE I PHASE II PHASE III RELATIONSHIP BUILDING RESEARCH COLLABORATION NATIONAL ADOPTION AND SUB-NATIONAL OR REVIEW ACTIVITY

EUROPE 10 Nations Finland Finland Wales Wales Switzerland Switzerland European Scotland Commission France Germany Ireland Spain Luxembourg AFRICA 1 Nation Belgium MIDDLE EAST 1 Nation UAE UAE ASIA PACIFIC 4 Nations Japan Japan Hong Kong Indonesia NORTH AMERICA 2 Nations New Zealand SOUTH AMERICA 7 Nations Canada Ecuador Ecuador

*The U.K. has not formally adopted the Footprint; however, work by our partners in advancing the Footprint at the city level has led to national policy shifts. he ‘Beyond GDP’ debate gathering pace in Europe is opening “T up exciting new possibilities for Global Footprint Network to step up to the plate with natural resource consumption ﬁ gures and analysis – and solutions – tailor-made for policy-makers.” – Tony Long Director, WWF European Policy Ofﬁ ce

CASE STORY: UNITED ARAB EMIRATES In 2007, the United Arab Emirates, concerned with the fact that it led the world in per capita Ecological Footprint, launched an ambitious initiative. Al Basama Al Beeiya (the Ecological Footprint Initiative) is a national effort aimed at “ensuring a sustainable future by measuring and understanding the impact of our ways of living on planet Earth”.

The Footprint initiative facilitates sustainable planning through a robust and science-based decision making process. The Emirates has now earmarked $15 billion dollars of investment into alternative energy (more than the U.S.), as well as dedicated $22 billion to create Masdar (a zero-waste, zero-carbon eco-city to serve as a model for sustainable development). It has also created the innovative Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (MIST), a research institute dedicated to developing cutting-edge renewable energy solutions.

Global Footprint Network researchers are now working with UAE scientists on a scenario tool to transform its electricity sector, one of the largest portions of its Ecological Footprint. With the project, researchers are testing various energy policies to compare their potential for reducing Footprint. Al Basama Al Beeiya has also generated widespread public understanding of the Ecological Footprint. Recently, the Abu Dhabi Environment Agency launched an initiative that makes the Ecological Footprint part of the core curriculum at many schools.

Global Footprint Network is working with core partners within the UAE, including Emirates Environmental Associates, Abu Dhabi Global Environmental Data Initiative (AGEDI), and Emirates Wildlife Society (WWF), to advance on-the-ground projects to reduce the Footprint.

PHASE IV PHASE V SETTING A GOAL AND POLICY AND INVESTMENT TEN-IN-TEN PROGRESS TO DATE WEIGHING OPTIONS SHIFTS Since Ten-in-Ten’s launch, Japan, Switzerland, UAE, Ecuador, Finland, Scotland and Wales have adopted the Ecological Footprint United Kingdom* United Kingdom* as a sustainability indicator and/or included it in national planning Wales Wales documents.

In 2009 alone, Global Footprint Network engaged in discussion with representatives of countries including Australia, Austria, Brazil, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ghana, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, UK and the USA.

In 2009, ﬁ ve countries undertook reviews of the Footprint to validate the data and/or method for possible adoption: France, Belgium, Spain, Luxembourg and Indonesia. UAE UAE Global Footprint Network is working to ensure that the Ecological Footprint is aligned with the framework of GDP, facilitating its use as a complementary indicator. Global Footprint Network has been researching the potential alignment of the National Footprint Accounts Ecuador with SEEA, an environmental satellite account to the System of National Accounts (SNA) that comprises GDP.

06 NATIONS BIOCAPACITY AND THE WEALTH OF NATIONS

A generation ago, the world still had signiﬁ cant ecological reserves. In 1961, three-quarters of the world’s countries, (representing more than 80 percent of its population), demanded resources and emitted carbon dioxide at a rate the ecosystems within their borders could keep up with.

Today, less than 20 percent of the world’s people live ecological risk proﬁ le. The intiative helps governments in countries where this is still the case. In 2008, Global understand: What ecological reserves does the country Footprint Network launched the Ecological Creditor have? How can those reserves be maintained? If the and Debtor Initiative aimed at reversing this trend by country, on a net basis, uses more ecological resources helping countries understand and value biocapacity than it has within its borders, how can it manage the as a source of ongoing wealth. Through this initiative, risks of increased prices or shrinking ecological stocks? we work with countries to help them understand their

ECOLOGICAL DEBTORS Footprint greater than Biocapacity 150% larger 100-150% larger 50-100% larger 0-50% larger

ECOLOGICAL CREDITORS Biocapacity greater than Footprint 0-50% larger 50-100% larger 100-150% larger 150% larger CASE STORY: ECUADOR In the past ﬁ ve decades, Ecuador has seen a vast 8 BIOCAPACITY ecological surplus evaporate. In 1961, the country had biocapacity more than four times greater than its 7 ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT Ecological Footprint; today, however, its Ecological 6 Footprint almost equals its biocapacity and will quickly exceed it if current trends continue. 5

To reverse this trend, Ecuador has committed in its 4 National Plan that by 2013, the country’s Footprint will be lower than its biocapacity and that it will remain so 3 going forward. 2 The country also adopted a Presidential mandate to Global Hectares per Person develop physical indicators that can better track environ- 1 mental performance and support decision making. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 0 • • • • • • • • • • • Ofﬁ cials have said they hope the country’s leadership in 1961 1965 1969 1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 using the Ecological Footprint as a resource accounting tool will inspire policy-makers elsewhere to follow suit.

Ecological Creditor and Debtor Initiative (ECDI) Progress this Year:

Ecuador has made a public commitment to reversing its ecological imbalance (see case story). Ecological Creditors and Debtors was the subject of a side-event Global Footprint Network and key partners sponsored at the global climate talks in Copenhagen. Global Footprint Network also presented workshops in Peru, Colombia and Mexico to look at the increasingly important role of biocapacity in maintaining healthy economies and offering a decent quality of life. The Community of Andean Nations (CAN), a joint body of Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru, is working with Global Footprint Network to explore the relevance of the Ecological Footprint for the region. As part of a major public education campaign, the CAN released a Web and TV spot comparing Ecological Footprint accounting to the family budget, and the risk of ecological deﬁ cit to a household spending more than it earns. Global Footprint Network partner Acuerdo Ecuador, with support from the CAN, European Commission and Foro Ciudades Para La Vida, published The Ecological Power of Nations: The Earth’s biocapacity as a new framework for international cooperation. With compelling images, graphs, and quotes, the report presents evidence of the emerging importance of biocapacity to both national competiveness and continued well-being. 08 CITIES AT THE FOREFRONT OF CHANGE

As we consider how to retool our societies to be competitive in a resource-constrained world, cities are in a special position to help shape our future. In 2008, the world’s urban population outstripped its rural population for the ﬁ rst time. By 2040, almost two-thirds of the world’s people are projected to live in urban centers, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.

CASE STORY: CALGARY The fastest-growing city in Canada, Calgary also has one of the highest per capita Ecological Footprints. As the city prepares to meet the infrastructure needs of a rapidly growing populace, city offi cials want to ensure the city develops in a way that will enable it to continue to be a great place to live. Recognizing that living beyond its ecological means would affect the quality of life for Calgarians, the City Council initiated an Ecological Footprint project in 2008 to understand and reduce its resource consumption. In 2009, Calgary became the fi rst city to set a specifi c Footprint reduction target, with an ambitious goal that calls for a 30 percent reduction in per capita Footprint to reach the Canadian national average of 7.25 global hectares per capita by 2036. With targets set, Calgary has begun a number of initiatives aimed at attaining the goals set by the Ecological Footprint project, ranging from small projects such as installing LED traffi c lights to larger, systemic changes such as encouraging high-density community development. Calgary has taken steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with green energy projects such as the ENMAX energy agreement, which provides 75 percent of corporate electricity from green sources (to be increase to 90 percent by 2012); and Ride the Wind, a wind-powered light rail transit system. With the combined effort of businesses, government and individuals, the city plans to reach its lower Footprint goal.

As cities become larger and more concentrated, they Communities such as Masdar City in Abu Dhabi, and will face heightened ecological pressures. But cities also BedZed in the U.K., (projects developed with support have unique opportunities for developing cutting-edge from Global Footprint Network partner BioRegional), are solutions and achieving signiﬁ cant resource savings, prime examples. Engineered to enable residents to have while also improving quality of life. a high quality of life while staying as close as possible to a one-planet Footprint, the communities feature solutions It is often city governments that make the infrastructure such as solar-powered utilities, extensive waste and decisions that shape a society’s way of life for years to water recycling, pedestrian and come. Poor choices can lock a city into wasteful energy bike-oriented development, car- patterns for decades, while investments toward compact free zones, and other features urban development, efﬁ cient mobility and alternative that dramatically cut residents’ energy systems can set the standard for providing a pressure on resources. high quality of life on a low Ecological Footprint. HERE ARE HIGHLIGHTS FROM OUR WORK WITH CITIES THIS YEAR:

The eco-city of Curitiba, Brazil, renowned for its progressive environmental policies, has initiated a Footprint study. The study will help city leaders understand the degree to which various green development policies have resulted in ecological efﬁ ciency and where they have fallen short. The study aims to serve as a guidepost for sustainable urban development around the globe.

Global Footprint Network began a study of the Ecological Footprint of Quito, Ecuador. The study is being conducted in partnership with CORPAIRE, a local agency specializing in air quality that is looking to inﬂ uence city policy to address air pollution and other environmental challenges.

The Portuguese city of Cascais conducted a study of its Ecological Footprint to better understand its major areas of ecological pressure.

Global Footprint Network joined forces with San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) to calculate the Ecological Footprint of San Francisco residents and the city as a whole. The fi nal report fi ndings, to be published in late 2010, will help offi cials identify the resource demand and carbon dioxide emissions of city residents.

believe in the power of the cities and the states “I and the provinces to be laboratories for new ideas, which the national governments then can go and study and adopt.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger California Governor speaking to the delegation at Copenhagen 10 HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INVESTING IN LASTING HUMAN PROGRESS

How can our aspirations for human society be achieved within the limits of what the planet can provide? That is one of humanity’s key challenges for the 21st century.

UNDP threshold for high human development 12 THE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

African countries 10

Asian countries

European countries 8

Latin American and Caribbean countries

North American countries 6 Oceanic countries

World average biocapacity per person in 1961 4

World average biocapacity per person in 2006 2 High human development within the Earth’s limits 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0

United Nations Human Development Index*

* The U.N. Human Development Index is a measure of human well-being, while the Ecological Footprint measures ecological demand. Countries nearest to the blue box are closest to achieving a high quality of life within a small Ecological Footprint.

Ultimately, we cannot achieve the shared humanitarian Through our Human Development Initiative, Global goals of eliminating poverty, hunger and disease, if at Footprint Network is working to inﬂ uence development the same time we are undermining the natural assets agencies and governments in industrializing nations to that are essential to human well-being. Advances in chart a course for progress that can persist in the face human development that do not take ecological limits of growing resource constraints. Our work has been into account will be precarious at best, vulnerable to featured by the United Nations Development Programme quick reversal by environmental degradation, resource (UNDP) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation shortages, regional conﬂ ict and political instability. and Development (OECD-DAC). n [a] sense, climate change is as much an opportunity as it is a threat. “I It is our chance to usher in a new age of green economics and truly sustainable development.” – Ban Ki-moon U.N. Secretary General

CASE STORY: AFRICA If current consumption and population trends continue, within the next 20 years Africa will have an Ecological Footprint that exceeds what the ecosystems within its borders produce. Countries including Senegal, Kenya and Tanzania are set to reach that threshold in less than fi ve years. Though this is refl ective of a global trend, it is particularly alarming for Africa, a region where ecological defi cits can translate most directly into resource confl icts and shortages of food, fuel and other basic necessities for survival. Such were among the fi ndings presented in the Africa Ecological Footprint Factbook 2009. The book reported on indicators of human development and ecological performance for 24 countries and the region as a whole. The Ecological Footprint of the average person in Africa is extremely low, in many cases too small to meet basic needs for food, shelter and sanitation, the Factbook states. If large segments of the population are to move out of poverty, they will require greater access to resources to provide for their basic well-being. Yet Africa’s natural resource stock, which contains 12 percent of the world’s biocapacity, is under increasing pressure both from within the region, by expanding population and the impacts of climate change, and from abroad, as other nations deplete their own resources. The Factbook represents the culmination of two years of research by Global Footprint Network, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and local experts, and was published in partnership with UNESCO, the Luxembourg Agency for Development Cooperation and the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ). The report aims to help nations, foundations and development agencies pursue development efforts that alleviate, or at least do not aggravate, Africa’s resource pressures – otherwise, such efforts risk undermining the well-being of the very populations they hope to serve. 12 SCIENCE

Our work at Global Footprint Network is grounded in the use of a concrete empirical tool. The Ecological Footprint is a resource-accounting framework – backed up by an internationally accepted methodology. The Footprint is based upon a data set for nearly 200 nations, with about 6,000 data points per country, per year. The past year has been an especially exciting one for advancing the integrity and utility of this framework.

STANDARDS METHODOLOGY TRANSPARENCY

Global Footprint Network released Both the scientiﬁ c method and the In conjunction with the release of the second edition of its Ecological supporting tools are continually being the National Footprint Accounts, we Footprint Standards, including improved with the help of our National provided updates to three detailed expanded standards for Footprint Accounts Committee, comprised of supporting resources: the Guidebook studies of products and organizations. global representatives from our Partner to the National Footprint Accounts, The standards establish a set of Network. This past year, we made the Method Paper, and the Ecological internationally accepted best practices updates that help us better match the Footprint Atlas, which displays and and guidelines to ensure widespread categories from our source data and explains our country-level results. use of the Footprint that is credible account for regional variations in the and consistent. productivity of various land types.

TOOLS FOR DECISION-MAKING

In 2009, the organization completed an update to the template used to calculate the National Footprint Accounts, rendering it more streamlined and user-friendly. We also strengthened the tools that support decision-making.

The Consumption Land-Use Matrix (CLUM) breaks down the overall demand of a nation by activity categories (consumption types). Based on OECD economic data, we have developed CLUMs for 42 nations and are licensing them to partners.

The Global Navigator is a sophisticated scenario tool which allows users to test the resource- related outcomes of policies given various local and global situations. The ﬁ rst edition was developed in collaboration with World Business Council on Sustainable Development (WBCSD) members Weyerhaeuser, Boeing, and Syngenta. We are currently securing additional funding for the next edition. lobal Footprint Network has done a great service to humanity “G by moving the concept of Ecological Footprint into the public domain. Largely due to this effort, the Footprint concept is presently known to and used by numerous political leaders across the world, facilitating rational discussion of growth policy.” – Jorgen Randers Professor of Climate Strategy Norwegian School of Management

CASE STORY: OPEN EU Now representing the world’s largest economy, the European Union has undertaken a two-year, 1.5 million Euro program called One Planet Economy Network (OPEN) EU, aimed at building an economy that works within nature’s means. The core of the project is the creation of a Footprint tool that enables European decision-makers to explore future scenarios and create evidence-based policy that respects ecological limits.

The tool, called EUREAPA, is being created through a collaborative effort by Global Footprint Network, Stockholm Environmental Institute(SEI), WWF-UK, Twente University, SERI and Ecologic. EUREAPA will provide data for a “footprint family of indicators,” including carbon Footprint, water footprint and Ecological Footprint in a way that allows them to be integrated and compared. The tool will enable policy makers to forecast and back-cast, assess policy options and produce scenarios for any EU country or the EU as a whole.

In addition to its applications through OPEN EU, participating in the project will allow Global Footprint Network to lay the foundation to implement our Science and Technology Roadmap. For example, it will enable us to provide a more powerful multi-lateral trade- ﬂ ow analysis that provides the means to compare products and sectors. Such analysis can help governments direct investment toward more resource-efﬁ cient goods and services and promote greener ways of meeting market demand. 14 COMMUNICATIONS RAISING UNDERSTANDING OF RESOURCE LIMITS

As Global Footprint Network’s reach and impact grew around the world, so, too, did the public conversation surrounding overshoot and the Ecological Footprint. The New York Times, Financial Times, Washington Post, BBC, Agence France Presse, Le Monde, and Corriere della Sera were among the many leading publications worldwide that cited our work.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT CALCULATOR In December, National Geographic published EarthPulse: In June, GFN launched the latest additions of the popular State of the Earth 2010, which opened with a full page Ecological Footprint Calculator with data for users in of Global Footprint Network data and delivered a clear Switzerland and the city of Calgary, Canada. On April message: Sustainability means learning to live within the 22, 2009, CNN’s Josh Levs took the quiz on national means of one planet. television. “This is one of the best features that we discovered this week on Earth Day,” he said. Calculators WA$TED for Australia and the United States are currently on Global In its second season, WA$TED! on Discovery Channel’s Footprint Network’s Web site, Planet Green continues to entertain and educate viewers. and calculators for 10 new With the help of a Global Footprint countries in 9 languages will Network calculator, the shows crew be added in early 2010. tallies households’ Footprint and guides participants in ways to “green up” their act. Now viewers can calculate their own household’s Footprint on the Planet Green home page.

END OVERSHOOT EARTH OVERSHOOT DAY 2009 Global Footprint Network Earth Overshoot Day 2009, which fell on September launched a Twitter campaign 25, was covered in nearly 90 media outlets worldwide. called EndOvershoot. The Marking the day when humanity has used up nature’s campaign is designed to reach budget for the year, the Global Footprint Network- out to the under-35 demographic sponsored campaign was observed around the world – the heirs to our mounting with an Overshoot Day conference in Brussels, events ecological debt. By the end of the at Climate Week NYC, and grassroots campaigns by year, EndOvershoot had 1,761 numerous partners. followers – and the numbers continue to grow.

WEB On the heels of a Web site redesign and the launch of a German version of the site, Global Footprint Network added additional versions in French, Italian and Spanish. INFLUENCING WORLD VIEW

Partnering with large, inﬂ uential institutions is key to engaging governments and getting the world to act on ecological overshoot. Here is a sampling of the organizations that are leveraging their resources to address overshoot:

CASE STORY: WBCSD

What will it take to reach a one-planet economy in the next four The project identifi ed several “must-haves” for making a decades? The World Business Council for Sustainable Development, sustainable society possible, including: an institution representing leaders of many of the world’s most A system of market pricing that refl ects ecological costs, starting infl uential companies, launched its Vision 2050 Project to fi nd out. with carbon, water and ecosystem services Drawing upon the expertise of top executives from companies such Doubling agricultural output without increasing the amount of as Boeing, Syngenta, Weyerhauser, Procter & Gamble, Alcoa, land or water used Duke Energy, Toyota and Volkswagen, and using a Global Footprint Network calculator, the project tested a number of scenarios to Halting deforestation and increasing yields from planted forests determine means by which 9 billion people would be able live well Halving carbon emissions worldwide by 2050 through a shift to within the means of one planet. low-carbon energy systems and more energy-effi cient goods and The project’s goal was to identify pathways to achieving a sustainable services. world economy by 2050. The group concluded that the world had Providing universal access to low-carbon transportation enough resources to sustainably meet the needs of 9 billion people, but achieving this goal would require radical transformations to world A report presenting the fi nal conclusions of Vision 2050 was released markets, governance and notions of growth and progress. in February 2010.

WWF is mobilizing its 6 million members around a second new “meta-goal” (after conservation): By 2050, humanity’s Ecological Footprint will remain within the Earth’s capacity. WWF is re-orienting conservation and advocacy efforts through its global network of 49 national organizations to achieve this ambitious goal.

The US Army Environmental Policy Institute is evaluating the applicability of Ecological Footprint and biocapacity data for use in helping to identify emerging conﬂ ict hotspots.

GERMAN AGENCY FOR TECHNICAL COORPORATION (GTZ), a German government-owned development organization, published A Big Foot on a Small Planet? Accounting with the Ecological Footprint. The book and DVD, in English and German, provides a curriculum for students, using the Footprint as a lens for viewing issues of poverty, human development, and access to ecological resources. 16 PARTNERSHIPS EXPANDING OUR REACH

Achieving the large-scale change we need to reverse current ecological trends will require inﬂ uence from all levels of society – from citizen pressure and personal behavior change to technological innovation and business-sector inﬂ uence, to policy, trade and international agreements. Our more than 90 partners in 19 countries are critical to this effort.

HERE ARE JUST A FEW EXAMPLES OF OUR PARTNERS’ WORK:

NEW ECONOMICS BANK SARASIN & CO., LTD. FOUNDATION FOUNDATION (NEF) FOR GLOBAL SWITZERLAND UNITED KINGDOM SUSTAINABILITY (FFGS) One of Switzerland’s leading private SWITZERLAND Nef, an independent “think-and-do tank” banking institutions, Bank Sarasin has covering economic, environmental, and developed a unique way of evaluating FFGS, a Swiss sustainability think- social issues, has used the Ecological sovereign bonds using ecological tank, collaborated with GFN on a Footprint concept for bold advocacy performance as a key factor. Sarasin has project for leading Swiss electricity campaigns. Nef launched the “Nature developed a “Sustainability Matrix for company EBL. Using the Ecological Doesn’t Do Bailouts” campaign, Countries,” which, in addition to traditional Footprint as an indicator, the company targeting the UK’s Prime Minister with a means of evaluating bonds, rates countries is now able to communicate to full-page ad in the Times of London to in two additional areas: resource efﬁ ciency its customers the change of their notify Downing Street that the UK was and resource availability. Those countries individual Footprint when replacing “overdrawn” on its Earth account. Nef that meet a certain sustainability threshold their current heating system with a – including many Northern European also developed the Happy Planet Index, more eco-friendly thermal system. FFGS and Latin American countries – can be a metric that combines quality of life has also promoted a new deﬁ nition considered for inclusion in the bank’s measures and Ecological Footprint data. of “Clean Tech”, using the Ecological investment portfolios, while those that do Its 2009 Happy Planet Index results, in Footprint as a key measuring device not, including countries like the U.S. and which Costa Rica topped the list, were for environmental impact. Last July, many oil-rich Gulf states, are excluded. reported in the major news media all over FFGS launched the CleanTech As ecological pressures intensify, the the world. Most recently, nef launched Business Association, which supports bank says, resource-scarcity will emerge a viral video to illustrate the limits of the Clean Tech businesses, and includes as a growing risk factor for government growth economy using the analogy of a 86 companies across all industries. stability and bond performance. The hamster that reaches 9 billion tons and sustainability ratings will seek to improve just keeps growing. bond funds performance or, at a minimum, minimize resource-related risk. RECYCLA | CHILE CESTRAS | PORTUGAL EPA VICTORIA | AUSTRALIA

Recycla is an e-waste recycling company CESTRAS, a non-proﬁ t dedicated to assisting The Environmental Protection Authority of that joined Global Footprint Network as a public entities, companies, and citizens Victoria collaborated with the Australian partner in September 2009. After mastering in sustainable development strategies, energy company Origin to update its the Ecological Footprint concept through has become a principal partner leading Carbon Footprint Calculator speciﬁ cally trainings, Recycla is actively working to advance use of Footprint among businesses a Footprint study for the city of Cascais, for events. Origin’s Sustainable Event and municipalities in Chile. A winner Portugal. The study garnered attention in calculator went online in June 2009 and of prestigious international awards for several national newspapers. CESTRAS is accessible on EPA Victoria’s Web site. environmental business, Recycla is known also collaborated with Global Footprint Users can estimate the carbon Footprint for its establishment of a model program for Network and WWF on the Portuguese of their event, from travel to catering, and e-waste recycling. version of the 2008 Living Planet Report. have the option of purchasing carbon offsets after calculating their event’s Footprint.

OUR PARTNERS

GOVERNMENT Natural Logic, Inc. RMIT University Center for BioRegional Development nef – new economics Design Group foundation AGEDI – Abu Dhabi Global Paul Wermer Sustainability Environmental Data Consulting St. Petersburg State University CASSE – Center for the nrg4SD – Network of Regional Governments for Initiative RECYCLA Chile Sustainable Europe Research Advancement of the Steady State Economy Sustainable Development Conseil régional Nord Pas Institute Skipso OeKU de Calais Tartu University CELF – Children’s Environmental Literacy One Earth Initiative EPA Queensland The Cloud Institute for Foundation Optimum Population Trust EPA Victoria EDUCATIONAL Sustainability Education CII – Confederation of Indian Planet2025 Network Zero Waste SA INSTITUTIONS The Pontifi cal Catholic Industry University of Peru - PUCP Plattform Footprint Finnish Ministry of the Agrocampus Ouest De Kleine Aarde Environment Universidad de Colima PROECOENO BRASS Centre at Cardiff Earth Day Network Hawai’i County Resource University of Siena Rete Lilliput University Ecolife Center – Ecodynamics Group Sustainable Earth Initiative British Columbia Institute of Ecological Footprint Japan The City of Calgary Technology The Natural Step Eco-Norfolk Foundation International Welsh Assembly Government CERAG CORPORATIONS Emirates Environmental The Sustainable Scale Project Charles University Bank Sarasin & Co. Ltd. Group The Web of Hope Environment Centre CONSULTANCIES Info Grafi k Emirates Wildlife Society- Together Campaign Corvinus University of WWF Alberfi eld Pty Ltd Budapest Novatlantis Utah Population and FFGS – Foundation for Environment Coalition Ambiente Italia Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Pictet Asset Management SA Global Sustainability Water Footprint Network Best Foot Forward Center Portfolio 21 Investments, Inc. FAN – Fundación Amigos de WWF Carbon Decisions Ecole Nationale Supérieur The GPT Group la Naturaleza des Mines de Saint-Étienne WWF - Japan CESTRAS Global Green USA ZeroFootprint DANDELION Environmental GIDR – Gujarat Institute for Development Research NGOs ICLEI Local Governments for Consulting and Service Ltd. Sustainability Institute of Social Ecology AASHE – Association for the EcoMark Instituto de Ecología Política Advancement of EcoRes New Zealand Center for Ecological Economics Sustainability in Higher IRES Piemonte Research Ecossistemas Design Education Institute Ecológico NHTV Centre for Sustainable Tourism and Transport Acuerdo Ecuador KÖVET Association for EcoSTEPS Sustainable Economies North West University Agenda21 Action Council Empreinte Ecologique SARL Center for Environmental for Gyeonggi-do LEAD International Libélula Management AGIR 21 Nature Humaine 18 OUR SUPPORTERS DONOR PROFILES

FRANK AND ”We give to Global Footprint Network because the MARGRIT organization has the ability to infl uence problems at a BALMER- core level: nations adapting laws for greater sustainability. We give with the hope that the ideas of Global Footprint LEUPOLD Network will infl uence, and be accepted by, more and more countries. We fi rst heard about the Ecological Footprint in 2002 when we attended a presentation by Mathis Wackernagel in Basel, Switzerland. Since then we have been annual donors to the organization. Global Footprint Network’s work has prompted us to be more conscious about our own personal choices when it comes to sustainability, and we share our perspective with others regularly. We carry Global Footprint Network’s wallet cards [tabulation of countries’ Ecological Footprint] with us to help explain our global situation.”

PETER SEIDEL ROLAND MATTER

“When I learned about Global Footprint “I was introduced to Global Footprint Network in Network’s work, it fell right in line with the 2005 by Peter Schiess, a colleague with whom way I had been thinking about our fi nite I served in the Parliament of Basel. During my tenure as resource base and growing consumption a Parliament member, I fought for sustainable practices patterns, worsened by population growth. and the consideration of our environmental resources. I was invited to a speech given To focus solely on alternative energy through by Mathis Wackernagel, and advances in technology can only go so far. Population and was immediately enthusiastic consumption are direct multipliers of the problem. In order to solve about the work. Instead of all the the problem, we must deal with these factors as well. innumerable, partial ecological ideas and actions (too often only Knowledge is essential. We must learn how our planet works and “ecological cosmetics”), fi nally what we are doing to it. We must also understand how societies here was a superior tool that — and the human brain that invents them – work, otherwise we included all the details to serve as will just continue to blunder along in this unsustainable pattern. a compass for sustainability! Since The terms Global Footprint, Ecological Footprint, and carbon that speech I give annually to the Footprint are appearing in many places. “Footprint” as a term is organization – both in time and in fi nancial contributions. one that gets people to think in a more holistic way, and by using Professor Peter Schiess and I decided to advance a number with it, it is easy to grasp the seriousness of the impact this ingenious idea in Switzerland and to help Global we are having on our planet. I’m proud to be part of this movement Footprint Network to introduce the methodology as an and the potential it has for changing the way governments and ecological bookkeeping tool on par with Gross Domestic essentially our species view progress in a fi nite world.” Product in the nation. It is with great pleasure that I support Global Footprint Network in advancing their work. I see myself as an ambassador on behalf of the mission of the organization.” GLOBAL FOOTPRINT NETWORK WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE FOLLOWING FOR THEIR GENEROUS DONATIONS RECEIVED JANUARY 1, 2009 – DECEMBER 31, 2009

FOUNDATION Jean Chamberlain Louis Ginsberg Charles McNeill Dieter Steiner-Hamel SUPPORT Dora Christ-Viret Ursula Gloor-Roessiger Lorran Meares James C. Stewart Ray C. Anderson John Cobb Rob Gray Ron Meissen Randall Stratton Foundation Kristin Cobble Green Leap Bartholomew Merrick Irene Sury Mental Insight Foundation Michael Cohen Richard and Gail Aimee Merrill and Daniel John and Linda Sweeney Rudolf Steiner Foundation Michaela Collins and Grossman Cardozo Karl-Martin and Monika Skoll Foundation Kevin Collins Yvonne and Christian Robbert Misdorp Tanner-Hosch TAUPO Fund Aline Colomb Haener-Zuber Hans-Edi and Ruth Steven Temple Winslow Foundation Michael Common Elizabeth Hardy Moppert-Vischer Don Thompson Flora Family Foundation Sue Cooke Lamont and Marilyn Peter Müller Henning Thomsen Hempel Foundation for Global David Cross Gilles and Monique Ulrich and Theodora Community Nicollier-Serment Johanna Cummings Robert A. Herendeen, Ph.D. Buck-Tomasevic MAVA - Fondation pour la David Osman Mik Dale Martin Hiller Michael Treglazoff Protection de la Nature Catherine and Bill Parrish Charlie Davis Donald Hodge Bill and Lynne Twist Fondation Hoffmann Lutz Peters Nona B. Dennis André and Rosalie John Vann Hoffmann Steven Price Michael and Irene Philippe Vessereau DONORS Dr. Jan Hoffmann Deutmeyer Roger Pritchard Terry and Mary Vogt Anonymous Luc Hoffmann Stefanie Pruegel Mark and Sally Dimaggio Peter Vonder Mühll Annelies Atchley Leo Jansen Patricia and Peter Raven Bob Dimiceli and Andrea Bea and Oliver Frank and Margrit Pook Miki Kashtan William and Ellen Reed Wackernagel Balmer-Leupold Sharon Ede Ivo-Heinz Knöpfel David Richards Tobias Wackernagel Bharat Barki Paul and Anne Ehrlich Hollister Knowlton Haydee Rodriguez-Pastor Marie-Christine Katja Bider Mohamed and Patricia Eva Konigsberg Jean Rogers Wackernagel Nathan Bixby El-Ashry David and Frances Korten Eugene Rosa Yoshihiko Wada Peter Bosshard Fidelity Charitable Gift Irmelin Kradolfer David Rosen Tom Wangler Carlos Eduardo Lessa Fund Joseph and Barbara Kresse Jeanne and Richard Roy Steven Webb Brandão Jeanette Fitzsimons Sarosh Kumana Michael Saalfeld Ralph D. Wehrle Dieter and Christine Helen Fox Mark Lancaster Amy S. Schauwecker Tom Welte Burckhardt Henry M. Frechette Jr. Terilynn Langsev Dr. Peter Schiess Carole Wilmoth Christoph and Annemarie Verena and Rene L. Frey Louisa W. Leavitt Daniela Schlettwein-Gsell Burckhardt-Hosig Jerelyn and Alexander Jossi Fritz-Mauer Cynthia and Benjamin Susan Scott Wilson Lilian and Michael Andrew Frothingham and Leslie-Bole Burkhard Peggy Sebera Gary Wolff and Ruth Lynn Decker Edmund Levering Hartman Rosemarie and Max F. Peter Seidel Michael Frothingham Burkhard-Schindler William Lidicker Beat Senn Jay and Jennifer Wood Victoria Frothingham Peggy and Norm Burns Dr. Jay A. Luger Hans-Peter and Carol Sigg Jack Woodward David Gee Susan Burns and Mathis Tamas Makray Donald Sirkin J. David Yount, Ph.D. Wackernagel Thomas and Moni Gelzer Karen Masters Scott Soder Thomas M. and Ann Yuill Jeremy Butler Christiane Gelzer-Sarasin Roland Matter Heinz Sommer Malcolm Potts and Martha Ursula Gelzer-Vischer Don McCallum Soroptimist International Campbell Clara Gerhardt Carl McDaniel Club Engiadina Fritjof Capra Paolo Giaretta Carol and Charles Dr. Elisabeth Staehelin Stanley R Carpenter Robert and Lianna Gilman McGlashan Matthew and Josie Stein 20 WHO WE ARE

BOARD OF DIRECTORS SCIENCE AND Peter H. Raven STAFF Susan Burns POLICY ADVISORY Former President, AAAS Bree Barbeau Chief Executive Offi cer COUNCIL William Rees Nina Brooks of Global Footprint Oscar Arias Co-creator of the Susan Burns Network, Oakland, President of Costa Rica Ecological Footprint William Coleman CA, USA Mick Bourke Karl-Henrik Robèrt Emily Daniel Kristin Cobble Chairman, EPA Victoria Founder, The Natural Tracy Doten Leadership and (Australia) Step Brad Ewing organizational Lester Brown Emil Salim Melissa Fondakowski development practitioner, Founder, Worldwatch Former Indonesian Nicole Freeling San Francisco, CA Institute, Founder, Earth Minister of State Alessandro Galli Eric Frothingham Policy Institute James Gustave Speth Steve Goldfi nger Corporate attorney, Herman E. Daly Dean Yale School Rachel Hodara Melanie Hogan business executive and Intellectual Father of of Forestry and Katsunori Iha part owner of Progressive Ecological Economics Environmental Studies Kristin Kane Investment Management, Fabio Feldmann Will Steffen Mark Lancaster Oakland, CA, USA Former Sao Paulo Chief Scientist of IGBT Martin Kärcher Minister of Environment David T. Suzuki André Hoffmann Maxine McMinn Eric Garcetti Award winning scientist Swiss entrepreneur and Jennifer Mitchell Council President, Los and broadcaster investor David Moore Angeles M. S. Swaminathan Michael Saalfeld Shiva Niazi Wangari Maathai India’s leading scientist Energy entrepreneur, Anna Oursler Winner, Nobel Peace on sustainable food Hamburg, Germany and Pati Poblete Prize, Founder, the Green security Hawaii, USA. Anders Reed Belt Movement Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker Sarah Rizk Mathis Wackernagel Julia Marton-Lefèvre Founder, Wuppertal Meredith Stechbart Co-creator of the Director General of IUCN Institute, Dean, Bren Mathis Wackernagel Ecological Footprint Manfred Max-Neef School at UCSB Joy Whalen and President of Global Economist recipient Right Dominique Voynet Willy DeBacker Footprint Network, Livelihood Award Former Environment Oakland, CA, USA Michael Meacher Minister of France Haroldo Mattos de Former UK Minister of E.O. Wilson Lemos, Environment President of the Brazilian Distinguished biologist, Rhodri Morgan Committee for the United Harvard University First Minister of Wales Nations Environment Norman Myers Programme and Professor Leading environmental of Environmental scientist Engineering at the Daniel Pauly Federal University of Rio Leading marine ecologist de Janeiro Jorgen Randers Former President, Norwegian School of Management INTERNS ADVICE AND SERVICES Jean-Yves Courtonne A Caspian Production, Inc. Gemma Cranston Aili Pyhala SPECIAL THANKS Morgan Dumitru Celery Design Collaborative CFO Savvy Maurice Evans A Special Thanks to People Who Samantha Johnston Compass Professional Development Contributed to the Africa Factbook Kelly Lam Consider It Done! Kyle Lemle Cosmetto Abdi Jama Ghedi Marc Lipoff Fabienne Koller Aboua Aboua Gustave Zilose Lyons Frank Mina Free Range Graphics Sandy McCoy Alberto Julio Tsamba Girls Inc. of Alameda County Sarah Murrell Arig Gaffer M.A. Bakhiet Graphics Resource Leneve Ong Aventino Kasangaki ISPOT Interactive Nicoletta Patrizi Josue Ramos Daniel Jamu Tatjana Puschkarsky Justin Kitzes Dorothy C Kasanda Janae Rushing Lapis Group Inc. Ednah Zvinavashe Thea Sutton Lending Spirit, Inc. Ewa Berezowska-Azzag LRE Catering RESEARCH AFFILIATES Maddox Design Fi Imanga Olaf Erber Mariana Olcese George L.K. Jambiya Justin Kitzes One L Productions Harnet Bokrezion Bonnie McBain (née Lauck) Patricia A. Wintroath, CPA Kwami Ekuka Wassinu Chad Monfreda Paul Wermer Sustainability Leonard Omondi Akwany Dan Moran Consulting Michael E. Murray Robert A. Herendeen Lionel Thellier Juan Alfonso Peña Lvia - Cooperat. Francesca Silvestri Decentralis Yoshihiko Wada Mamby Fofana Aaron Welch Michel Masozera Paul Wermer Michelle Pressend Mohamed Tawfi c Ahmed Philippe Louis Bitjoka Regina N. Kamau Shigeraw Abate Gizaw Torjia Shar Karimu 22 WHO WE ARE CLIENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

GOVERNMENT EDUCATIONAL NGOS AGENCIES INSTITUTIONS Beahrs Environmental CORPORATIONS City of Calgary, Canada Carnegie Mellon University, Leadership Program, United Bullfrog Films, United States CORPAIRE - Municiapl United States States Discovery Communications, Para El Mejoramiento Del Corvinus University of CAMFED, United States United States Aire de Quito, Ecuador Budapest, Hungary Comunidad Andina, Peru EBL, Switzerland Luxembourg Agency for Kyoto University, Japan CRP Henri Tudor Luxembourg EcoPetrol, Colombia Development Cooperation New York University, United Ecolife, Belgium Effi zienz-Agentur NRW, Environment Agency Abu States Interpret Green, United Germany Dhabi, Panhandle-Plains Historical States Lion TV, United States United Arab Emirates Museum, United States IUCN Switzerland Origin Energy, Australia EPA Victoria, Australia University of San Francisco International Security Forum, Sustainable Biodiesel, Law European Commission Switzerland United States Federal Ministry for School, United States LEAD Pakistan Economic Cooperation University of Cambridge, People to People and Development United Kingdom International, (BMZ), Germany Virginia Living Museum, United States German Agency for United States The Population Institute, Technical Cooperation United States (GTZ), Germany CONSULTANCIES World Business Council for Hjorring Kommune, Deloitte Sustainable Development Denmark Five Winds International, (WBCSD), Switzerland Indonesia Ministry of United States WWF Belgium Public Works Inexsos, Spain WWF Colombia Institut de la Statistique WWF Switzerland du Quebec, Canada Media Environmental Advisory Council, United States Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Canada Sustainable Construction Commission of hat do we mean when we talk about Costa Rica Swiss Agency for “W sustainability? There are many ways to Development defi ne it, but they all refl ect a simple truth. We’re and Cooperation Town of Woodside, a species of unlimited appetites living on a planet United States with limited resources.” – National Geographic State of the Earth 2010 DONATED GOODS AND PHOTO CREDITS SERVICES Steven Goldfi nger Andrea Pook Comunidad Andina Susan Burns Cooley Godward Kronish, LLP Michelle Magdalena Maddox Ecossistemas European Environment Agency Tracy Doten Cynthia Elliot Juan Alfonso Peña Bill & Lynne Twist

you look at the science “If about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand the data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth ...and you aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a pulse.”

– Paul Hawken Author and Environmentalist 24 FINANCIALS

INCOME & EXPENSE BY CATEGORY

INCOME Foundations 1,042,240 Client-Funded Projects 638,225 Contributed Services & Materials 260,066 Donations 173,284 Partnerships 142,806 Reimbursements From Other GFN Ofﬁ ces 78,953 Speaking Honoraria 49,984 License Fees 25,366 Reimbursements for Project Expenses 19,593 Royalties, Educational Materials & Misc 1,932

Total Income 2,432,449

EXPENSES Payroll 1,163,200 Work through In-Kind Support 260,066 Cost of Client-Funded Projects 218,150 Operating Expenses 192,024 Occupancy 159,913 Computers, Phones, IT 97,008 Other Direct Program Costs 95,136 Travel & Local Transportation 60,010 Printing & Postage 44,384 Accounting & Legal 44,091 Other Professional Fees 35,766 Newsletter, Web, & Communications 33,285 Allocations for Future Expenses 29,417

Total Expense 2,432,449

INCOME & EXPENSE BY PROGRAM INCOME EXPENSES

PROGRAM ACTIVITIES Outreach & Partnership 288,307 638,894 National Accounts, Research & Standards 224,276 366,458 International Ofﬁ ces 81,424 42,770 Strategic Projects 1,191,954 836,060 ADMINISTRATION & PLANNING 27,247 279,899 FUNDRAISING 619,242 238,952 ALLOCATIONS FOR FUTURE INITIATIVES & OPERATIONS 29,417

TOTAL 2,432,449 2,432,449 LOOKING AHEAD

Since its creation in 2003, Global Footprint The following are just a few examples of how we will continue Network has strived to raise public awareness about ecological limits. At the time, our greatest challenge to work with governments to help them “weigh their options was to introduce the concept of the Ecological and bend the curve:” Footprint, and to get governments and individuals talking about it. And they did. Now, with the world ready for a fundamental rethink of our economic and development models, the time for action is ripe. At Global Footprint Network, we have laid EUROPE | Global Footprint Network has made a major commitment to the groundwork for supporting governments and develop its European offi ce, in order to leverage the swell of interest among enterprises in the shift toward a sustainable future. European nations, as well as to work more closely with the European Now we must build on this momentum, scaling up Commission. our organization and our efforts to have the degree LATIN AMERICA | Global Footprint Network is working through its of impact we need to achieve our mission. Ecological Creditor and Debtor initiative to shift policy toward biocapacity protection. In 2010, new collaborations with Ecuador and Peru are By building on our expanding partner network, confi rmed, and Global Footprint Network is helping these nations secure advancing the science and applicability of the suffi cient funding from the Inter-American Development Bank and other Footprint and building on relationships we have sources. established with governments and infl uential ASIA | Within three years, the organization foresees solid openings, institutions around the world, we are working to including government agencies of China, for whom Global Footprint initiate large-scale shifts in thinking and policy. Network is producing a second Ecological Footprint report in 2010. In We have a solid start: More than 35 nations have addition, a project with Japan has already been secured. engaged with the organization directly. Seventeen nations have completed reviews of the Footprint and US | Global Footprint Network is expanding its outreach efforts. The seven nations have formally adopted it. organization has opened a satellite presence in Washington D.C, and will continue to pursue opportunities, including one initiated for 2010 with the Over the next three years, we envisage being able City of San Francisco. to expand the number of nations adopting the AFRICA | Global Footprint Network will work to redirect development Footprint to 20; we will be working to help their investments through strategic relationships with large human development leaders to evaluate the results in light of their policy organizations – donor agencies, large international NGOs, development implications, and to take decisive action. banks, UN agencies and affi liates and national governments. The organization is developing a tool for evaluating the degree to which proposed projects advance human well-being per unit of nature.

FOOTPRINT FUTURES

In 2010 we will launch Footprint Futures: A Global Youth Summit, organized in collaboration with the Hawai’i Preparatory Academy. Footprint Futures is a unique educational program in which students at international high schools collaborate on identifying optimal resource consumption levels for their countries, and for the world. At the core of the program is a youth driven simulation of global negotiations on climate change, using biocapacity and Footprint as a framework. We are excited to be collaborating on this initiative with AVINA, a Latin American organization that contributes to sustainable development.

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