ANNUAL REPORT 2017
1 Message from CEO Mathis Wackernagel, Ph.D.
2017 was marked by a series of Within this ever-changing landscape, Global Footprint Network focused ups and downs in the world’s even more forcefully in 2017 on providing our data more broadly—and attempts to address climate freely—to city and national decision-makers, students and educators, change and natural resource academics, and of course data lovers like us around the world. constraints. Many reeled in shock Some 2017 accomplishments include: over the U.S. administration’s devotion to dismantling national We redesigned our online Footprint Calculator, a popular educational and international environmental tool, reaching 700,000 new users in just four short months. efforts. Then France President We made all of our National Footprint Accounts data on more than Emmanuel Macron stepped up 200 countries available for free on our new Ecological Footprint and closed the year on an upbeat Explorer open data platform. note with his One Planet Summit in Paris, just four months after We reached the largest audience ever with our campaign to massive media coverage of Earth Overshoot Day in France. The one- #MoveTheDate of Earth Overshoot Day, attracting coverage on planet theme reinforces Global Footprint Network’s vision of a future about 2,000 websites in 100+ countries and generating 1+ billion where all thrive within the means of our one planet. media impressions.
Climate change continues to be one of the biggest challenges We continued to work with governments on different continents to use of our generation, and Global Footprint Network offers the most the Footprint to spark sustainability policy and shape public opinion, comprehensive metric to compare human demand for ecological including Colombia, Japan, Montenegro, Portugal, and Germany. resources and services, including carbon sequestration, to what Earth can renew. The Ecological Footprint sums up all competing human This would never be possible without the help of our generous donors. demands on nature, including carbon emissions from fossil fuel use. Thank you for helping us make impact in this world. To live up to the Paris Agreement’s climate goals, we need to find ways With warmest wishes, to live within the planet’s regenerative capacity, as the population and its needs are growing. Therefore, Ecological Footprint accounting becomes an increasingly central metric for those committed to making their economies succeed. Mathis Wackernagel, Ph.D. CEO and Co-Founder
2 Mission and Vision
Global Footprint Network has the tools to help individuals, cities, and countries thrive in a resource-constrained world.
OUR MISSION is to help end OUR VISION is that all can thrive ecological overshoot by within the means of our making ecological limits central to one planet. decision-making.
3 Founded in 2003, we began our work with governments across the globe. Our accomplishments from 2017 include:
Nariño North-Rhine Westphalia Portugal Mediterranean The province of Nariño, In the first Ecological Footprint We began a project with six As part of the DestiMED Colombia, boasts extraordinary analysis of Germany’s most cities in Portugal to calculate project, we began working natural beauty and is a populous state, we found their Ecological Footprints and with the International Union biological hotspot home to that North-Rhine Westphalia biocapacity. These measures for Conservation of Nature more than 5,000 species of needs more than five times will then be used to develop (IUCN) to measure and reduce plants and animals. We worked the resources than its own an alternative approach for the environmental impact with Nariño’s leaders to develop ecosystems can renew. Carbon national budget allocation, of tourism. This innovative a sustainability monitoring emissions are a large driver of based on the size of the cities’ approach, based on the framework to aid in the the region’s high Ecological Ecological Footprints and Ecological Footprint framework, transformation of Nariño to a Footprint. Then Environment biocapacities relative to will be applied to 13 protected green economy. Minister Johannes Remmel used those of Portugal. areas in six Mediterranean the analysis to call for an orderly countries. exit from the coal industry. 4 2017 was an exceptional year for building momentum to #MoveTheDate.
2.3+ million Footprint Calculator sessions in 2017.
With the help of our sponsor, Schneider Electric, we updated and (pictured here with Global Footprint Network CEO Mathis Wackernagel), redesigned this popular educational tool. Xavier Houot, Schneider’s became one of our most ardent Footprint champions. He explained Senior Vice President Safety, Environment, and Real Estate how Schneider Electric’s business model aims to #MoveTheDate in a Q&A.
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5 Calculator Testimonials
“On the first day of my environmental science class, we took a very eye-opening quiz on our lifestyle choices and how they affect the planet. The quiz offers solutions for lessening your impact. Since I took the quiz, my family has made some of those changes to our lifestyle.”
MARY CLARE, Student, United States
“I like that before you get the breakdown of your results, the calculator actually tells me my personal Overshoot Day. It’s almost like having a date for your birthday. Our students really enjoyed that aspect.”
ANDREA COLLINS, Lecturer, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
“I love the work of Global Footprint Network. Their Calculator, Earth Overshoot Day campaign, and metrics on the number of Earths we use are great tools to discuss the future of Earth and the people living on it. They motivate each individual to change their lifestyle for the better and they clearly demonstrate the need for political action and transformation.”
DR. GREGOR HAGEDORN, Academic Director, Museum of Natural History, Berlin
6 Earth Overshoot Day is the date when we use more from nature than our planet can renew in the entire year. In 2017, it fell on August 2.
Earth Overshoot Day By the Numbers 2017
4 6 Independent videos, including French Newspaper Events in US, front pages: Environmental Minister Brazil, Germany 95,595 Le Monde, Liberation, Le Nicolas Hulot and Russia Facebook shares of Le Monde article 30 Figaro and USA Today 154,000 1.3 Billion 1,744 Shares of The Independent article Web impressions from 1,910+ websites Pledges to #MoveTheDate 2.6 Million 104 50+ Views of video by French media Countries covered Overshoot Day, with NGO’s, corporations and government company Brut coverage by top-tier media in 29 countries agencies promoted Overshoot Day
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7 Data lovers worldwide dived into our new Ecological Footprint Explorer open data platform.
Thought leaders from Capgemini, Google, GreenBiz, the City of Oakland, the startup Aclima, and San Francisco International Airport joined Global Footprint Network Program Director Laurel Hanscom (second from left) for a panel discussion at our Footprint Explorer launch event in San Francisco. Among the questions the panel addressed: What are the barriers to sustainability for a city, an airport? What could Google Earth possibly still need in its quest to apply data to environmental challenges? What would you like a conversation on data and sustainability to sound like two years from now? 105,526 Activists, academics, and analysts visited the Footprint Explorer open data platform.
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8 Data User Testimonials
“The Ecological Footprint’s ability to provide both a global and country view of sustainability is especially powerful at showing people how we are living beyond the means of our planet, but in a way that is easy for the average person and student to understand.”
RONALD E. MEISSEN, Ph.D., Former Senior Director, Sustainability, Baxter International Inc.
“The Ecological Footprint has been very useful to the municipality of Guimarães not only to assess our greening policies, but also to help us determine in which areas we ought to focus our efforts in order to improve sustainability at the local level.”
ISABEL LOUREIRO, Ph.D., Professor at the University of Minho, Portugal
“For every innovation, we need to include in our assessment some questions of the form: ‘What if this catches on?’ Not merely the Dragons’ Den question of ‘Can this business scale?’ – but the Global Footprint Network question of, ‘Can the planet tolerate this business’s success?’”
PETER COFFEE, VP for Strategic Research, Salesforce
9 Thank you for your generous support
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Board of Directors Honorary Chair Peter Raven, Former Our Team Jim Block Susan Burns, Co-Founder André Hoffmann, Vice President, Missouri Sandra Browne Bruce Cook Photography and Director of Finance for Chairman, Roche Botanical Gardens, Helena Brykarz Canyon Road Design Inc. Change, Global Footprint leading botanist Susan Burns Cosmetto Network Science and Policy William E. Rees, Co-creator Amanda Diep DAA Montenegro LLC Daniel Goldscheider, Advisory Council of the Ecological Footprint Mikel Evans Tony Drummond Founder and CEO, Karl-Henrik Robèrt, Melissa Fondakowski Elsevier Terry A’Hearn, Chief Paperless, Inc. Founder, The Natural Step Alessandro Galli, Ph.D. Free Range Graphics LLC Executive at Scottish Sarosh Kumana, Emil Salim, Former Laurel Hanscom Frontiers Media SA Environment Protection Investor, President, Indonesian Minister of State Katsunori Iha Tanja Garovic Agency Pacific Capital James Gustave Speth, Ronna Kelly Chris Hails Management Oscar Arias, Former Founder of World David Lin, Ph.D. Annabel Hertz Rob Lilley, Board Chairman, President, Costa Rica Resources Institute, Laetitia Mailhes Alex Hinds Global Footprint Network; Lester Brown, Founder, leading environmental Serena Mancini IEA.org Investor, Member, Terra Earth Policy Institute advocate Evan Neill Impactvesting LLC Global Capital Herman Daly, Will Steffen, Former Director, Rachel Roberts Nebojsa Jablan Lynda Mansson, Intellectual father of Australian National Paulina Saracco Jelena Knezevic Director General, Ecological Economics University’s Climate Loredana Serban Olivera Komar MAVA Foundation Fabio Feldmann, Former Change Institute Michelle Shaffer Stacey Laumann Julia Marton-Lefèvre, Minister of Environment, Per Espen Stocknes, Senior Judith Sissener Maddox Design Former Director General, São Paulo Lecturer and Researcher, Mathis Wackernagel, Ph.D. Minuteman Press IUCN; Executive Fellow, Eric Garcetti, Mayor, BI Norwegian Business Michael Wang Needlework Embroidery Yale School of Forestry and Los Angeles School Robert Williams Oxford Economics Environmental Studies Stephen Groff, Vice David Suzuki, Award- Patricia Wintroath, CPA Keith Tuffley, President, Asia winning scientist and Interns Alex Porteshawver Founder and CEO, The Development Bank, broadcaster Sarah Beasley PR Newswire B Team; Founder and CEO, Southeast Asia/Pacific M.S. Swaminathan, Lia Ferguson Dragana Radevic Neuw Ventures SA Tom Lovejoy, H. John India’s leading scientist on Samson Lewin Révision Fiscalité Conseils SA Mathis Wackernagel, Heinz III Center sustainable food security Shehnaz Mannan Tanna Reynolds Co-creator of the Manfred Max-Neef, Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Shapour Mirzadeh Captus Sarl Ecological Footprint, Economist, recipient of Co-President, Club of Daniel Mok Zorica Skoflek Co-Founder and Right Livelihood Award Rome Sara Petiton Storyware CEO, Global Footprint Rhodri Morgan, Former Dominique Voynet, Former Emilie Tang Upwork Network First Minister for Wales Environment Minister, Golnar Zokai Daniel Pauly, Leading France, and Former Mayor, Affiliates marine ecologist Montreuil Jorgen Randers, Professor E.O. Wilson, Distinguished Jag Alexeyev of Climate Strategy, biologist, Harvard Alternative Technologies Norwegian School of University AM Creative Management Youssef Bennouna
13 Financials
INCOME | JANUARY 1, 2017 – DECEMBER 31, 2017
Consolidated across U.S., Swiss, and Belgian entities. Foundations Individual $970,712 Contributions $172,571
Income Fee for Service $162,150 Foundations $970,712
Individual Contributions $172,571
Fee for Service $162,150
In-Kind In-Kind Contributions $123,165 Contributions License Fees $29,281 $123,165 Interest, Dividends, Unrealized Loss $18,509
Speaking Honoraria $17,785
Royalties $214
Total Income: $1,494,386
14 Financials
EXPENSES | JANUARY 1, 2017 – DECEMBER 31, 2017
Consolidated across U.S., Swiss, and Belgian entities. Payroll and Personnel Professional Fees Expenses $464,122 $1,034,988
Expenses
Program Operations Expenses Payroll and Personnel Expenses $1,034,988 $164,939 $247,901 Professional Fees $464,122
Program Expenses $247,901
Operations $164,939
Computer-Related Expenses $50,110
Travel $44,757
Total Expenses: $2,006,817
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