GLOBAL FOOTPRINT NETWORK

ANNUAL REPORT 2015 1 A HISTORIC YEAR In 2015, the world took remarkable steps toward imagining a new future for our planet.

The first step came in September when the in a manner that does not threaten United Nations adopted the Sustainable food production.” This combination Development Goals. The goals strengthen of forces—consumption, deforestation, humanity’s commitment to well-being for all food production, emissions, population— on this one planet, regardless of income, underscores more than ever the value gender, or ethnicity. “Development” is of the Ecological Footprint as a tool that shorthand for committing to well-being accounts for all competing demands on for all. “Sustainable” implies that such the biosphere. The carbon Footprint is just development needs to fit within our one component of the Ecological Footprint. planet’s budget. The more comprehensive Ecological Footprint helps countries better understand The year then came to a historic close such competing needs as reforestation for when nearly 200 countries agreed to keep carbon sequestration, food, and timber global temperature rise below 2 degrees for everything from heat to furniture to Celsius. The Paris Climate Agreement paper. We will succeed when we address implies ending fossil fuel use before 2050. these competing demands on our planet’s The term “net carbon” in the agreement ecosystems as a whole. further suggests we need far more than just The race is far from won, but it’s a huge a transition to clean energy: Managing leap forward that, in 2015, scientists and land to support many competing needs national leaders agreed on the same finish also will be crucial. If we move out of line for the world to cross together. Thanks fossil fuel fast and furiously, demand for to our generous donors, we are poised substitutes—for instance forest products to deliver on these promises in 2016 and for fuel—could place tremendous new beyond. pressures on our planet if not managed well. The agreement also references With warmest regards, “sustainable management of forests” to Mathis Wackernagel, Ph.D. absorb CO2 and “aims to strengthen the global response to climate change… CEO and Co-founder 2 Our mission is to help end ecological overshoot by making ecological limits central to decision-making. By promoting data, tools, and analysis linking resource constraints to economics and well-being, Global Footprint Network influences major investments and policy shifts to support global sustainability.

Our vision is that all people can live well, within the means of nature.

3 SINCE OUR INCEPTION IN 2003, WE’VE ENGAGED

IN 69 COUNTRIES ON 6 CONTINENTS TO MAKE ECOLOGICAL LIMITS CENTRAL TO DECISION-MAKING. 4 NATIONAL POLICY & DECISION MAKING

The Ecological Footprint helps national governments understand and manage their country’s natural resources. By identifying risks associated with resource constraints and climate change, Ecological Footprint accounting helps decision-makers make confident policy decisions that safeguard resources and create a prosperous future. The foundation of all Ecological Footprint accounting at the USA: The richest country? national level is our National In July 2015 we published “State of the States: A new perspective on Footprint Accounts, which track the wealth of our nation,” a report that details the Ecological Footprint human demand on nature and and resource availability of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. nature’s capacity to meet that We found that the population of the United States is using twice the demand for more than 200 renewable natural resources and services that can be regenerated countries. The National Footprint within its borders, and resource consumption and availability varies Accounts use more than 15,000 dramatically state by state. data points per country per year. www.footprintnetwork.org/states 5

. NATIONAL POLICY & DECISION MAKING 2015 BY THE NUMBERS

Engagements with International 29 Organizations

Arab Forum For EU Parliament Union for the UNEP Mediterranean Environment and Inter-American Mediterranean (UfM) Action Plan, Regional Development (AFED) Development Bank UN Development Activity Center on African Development Bank Programme (UNDP) Sustainable Consumption International Organisation and Production (SCP/RAC) Asian Development Bank of La Francophonie UN Environment UNEP The Economics of (ADB) International Union for Programme (UNEP) Association of Southeast UNEP Convention on Ecosystems and Conservation of Nature Biodiversity (TEEB) Asian Nations (ASEAN) (IUCN) Biological Diversity UNEP World Conservation Center for Mediterranean IPBES UNEP Department of Early Integration (CMI) Warning and Assessment Monitoring Centre - Mediterranean Information Biodiversity Indicators Comunidad Andina de Office for Environment, UNEP Finance Initiative Partnership (BIP) Fomento (CAF) (UNEP FI) Culture and Sustainable UNESCO Venice Office European Environment Development (MIO-ECSDE) UNEP Green Economy Agency UN Statistics Division - Plan Blue UNEP Mediterranean System of Environmental- EU Directorate General – Tour Du Valat Action Plan Economic Accounting Research (SEEA)

6 METRICS FOR CITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

Global Footprint Network supports local and regional leaders in making budget-friendly public project and policy decisions for a sustainable and prosperous future. Cities that make investments to improve the well- being of their citizens while maintaining or even expanding their natural resources will be more resilient amid growing resource constraints and climate change. Communities and city Managing Mediterranean Resources planners around the globe use In many Mediterranean countries, one or two major urban centers are our tools to guide land use major contributors to the national Ecological Footprint. The Footprint of and budget decisions, track Athens constitutes nearly 40 percent of Greece’s Footprint. In fact, the sustainability progress, and demand for renewable resources in Athens exceeds the entire nation support better sustainability of Greece’s supply of resources by 22 percent, although the city’s policy and actions. population comprises about a third of the nation’s population. Cities thus offer a major opportunity for the Mediterranean region to manage its natural resources sustainably. www.footprintnetwork.org/med 7 FINANCE FOR CHANGE

Our Finance for Change Initiative seeks to transform the financial system so that resource constraints and climate change are better integrated by investors exposed to country-level risk. Through groundbreaking research and collaborations, we aim to influence credit rating agencies and encourage a robust policy response on the part of national governments who want Our Cutting-Edge Research to protect their economies from negative economic impacts. We are a leading voice on the links between environmental risk and the economic risk of countries, Food Price Shocks Stranded Assets helping financial institutions How does the gap between Are carbon-intense economies quantify and integrate resource rising demand for food and our more vulnerable to the rising risk scarcity and climate change into limited ability to provide it lead of stranded assets? How will this their investments, credit ratings, to food price shocks? How will impact their credit ratings? and country risk analysis. these shocks impact the credit worthiness of countries? www.footprintfinance.orgwww.footprintfinance.org 8 HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE

Global Footprint Network created the Sustainable Development Return on Investment (SDROI) methodology to measure community livelihood and ecological sustainability in a world facing climate change and ecological constraints. Our SDROI framework has been tested with partners IDE-India, Gram Vikas, and Fundación Escuela Nueva in ten villages in Odisha, India, to measure It Takes a Village progress toward development As part of our pilot project, we calculated the Ecological Footprint, and sustainability goals and biocapacity, and Human Development Index (HDI) of villages in India demonstrate donor agencies’ and shared the results through community workshops, educational ability to generate a high games, and videos. In the village of Biraguda (above), a woman adds sustainable development return her handprint to the public mural depicting the community’s plan to on their investment. meet its sustainable development needs through terraced irrigation to increase agricultural productivity and a schoolhouse with electricity. 9 ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT CALCULATOR

Students in China, educators in Australia, and others around the world are among the more than 2 million people who used our online Ecological Footprint Calculator in 12 languages in 2015. Our Footprint Calculator lets users measure their impact on our planet’s resources and then offers simple lifestyle changes to reduce their Footprint.

million users in 2 of the Footprint 222 Calculator countries

“As a student I knew just the general aspects of the “The calculator helps my students understand the Ecological Footprint, but after learning more detail relevance of sustainability and global ecological in the calculator, I was alarmed! It’s quite amazing overshoot to their own lives and careers, making to learn about my personal Footprint. Surely we them realize that sustainability and climate change need a collective conscious society to help preserve is their problem too—and not something to leave to our planet. Thank you for the Footprint calculator, it ‘someone else’.” really made this whole analysis much clearer.” — Kirsten Balding, RMIT University, Australia — Loveridge Kwenda, Zimbabwe www.footprintcalculator.org 10 EARTH OVERSHOOT DAY

Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity has exhausted the planet’s ecological budget for the whole year. Every year since 2006, Global Footprint Network has been leading an Earth Overshoot Day campaign that attracts coverage in hundreds of media outlets around the world. In 2015, Overshoot Day fell on August 13, and for the first time, Global 600+ Footprint Network coordinated our efforts with dozens more partners to amplify our message through social media. webpage mentions www.overshootday.org in 46 countries

29,000+ 38 YouTube video views partner 11 organizations 2015 BY THE NUMBERS

Awards 2 Mathis Wackernagel, Co-Founder and CEO, was awarded: International Association for Impact Assessment’s (IAIA) Global Environment Award RECYCLAPOLIS National Sustainability Award, Chile 2,997 10 Data licenses Journal articles

12 78 PARTNERS IN 26 COUNTRIES WORKING TO ACHIEVE LARGE-SCALE CHANGE

Government Agencies Consultancies Educational Institutions Corporations Innovation for Sustainable Abu Dhabi Global Agenda 21 Consulting Agrocampus Ouest Bank Sarasin Development Association Environmental Data Best Foot Forward Cardiff University – Barilla Instituto Jatobás Initiative Centro Nacional de The Centre for Pictet Group Instituto Ricerche Economiche City of Calgary Consultoría Business Relationships, Portfolio 21 Investments, Inc. e Sociali del Piemonte ICLEI Local Governments DANDELION Accountability, Korea Institute Center for for Sustainability Environmental Consulting Sustainability and Society NGOs Sustainable Development Palawan Council for and Service Ltd. (BRASS) ALISOS – Alianzas para la KÖVET Association for Sustainable Development ECOLOGIC S.A.S. - British Columbia Institute Sostenibilidad Sustainable Economies of Technology – School Welsh Assembly CO CERO Australian Earth Laws Millennium Institute 2 of Construction and Government EcoRes Alliance My Drop in the Oceans Environment BioRegional Development Zero Waste SA Ecossistemas Design Charles University New Economics Group (South Australia) Ecológico Environment Center Foundation (nef) Clean Up & Recycle for EcoSTEPS Corvinus University of One Earth Initiative Environment Estudio MC Budapest Plattform Footprint Confederation of Indian Footprint Consult E.U. Ecole Nationale Supérieur Population Matters Info Grafik Inc. des Mines de Saint-Étienne Industry (CII) Pronatura Mexico Iniciativa Verde Gujarat Institute for Dutch Footprint Group – Sentido Verde IDEA Consultants Inc. Development Research Werkgroep Voetafdruk Sustainable Europe Libélula Instituto Nacional de Nederland Research Institute (SERI) Natural Logic, Inc. Tecnologia Industrial Earth Day Network The Natural Step Punto 3 Srl Maastritch University Ecological Footprint Japan International RECYCLA Chile National State Tax Eco-Norfolk Foundation The Sustainable Scale Sustentator University of Ukraine Emirates Environmental Project Sustento Pontifical Catholic University Group The Web of Hope The Footprint Company of Peru Emirates Wildlife Society / Utah Population and University of Genoa – WWF Environment Coalition Department for the Study Fundación Amigos de la Water Footprint Network of Territory and its Resources Naturaleza WWF – International University of Siena – Fundación Neotrópica WWF – Japan Ecodynamics Group Globexs

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Foundations Government Educational Corporations NGOs Barr Foundation Agencies Institutions Generation Investment Arastadero Preserve Dudley Foundation Environment Agency – Hawai’i Preparatory Management LLP Project Flora Family Foundation Abu Dhabi Academy INFRAS Club of Rome Lawrence Foundation Ministry of Sustainable New Zealand Stein Design Ecological Footprint MAVA - Fondation Development and Centre for Ecological Japan pour la Protection de Tourism of Economics Emirates Wildlife la Nature Montenegro Society / WWF Mental Insight Population Matters Foundation Roundtable on Overlook International Sustainable Foundation Biomaterials Pittsburgh Foundation Rockefeller Foundation Roberto Marinho Foundation Stiftung Drittes Millennium Tellus Mater Foundation V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation Winslow Foundation

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Individuals Nona Dennis Gerald Hagenmaier Peter Maddock Daniela Schlettwein- Tobias Wackernagel Geoff & Beverly Nancy Deren Zac & Pat Hanscom Peter Martin Gsell Yoshihiko Wada Ainscow Amanda Diep Betsy Hardy Roland Matter Julien Schoenlaub Liz Walker Nicholas Allen Mark Dimaggio Lucy Hart John McCarthy Patrizia Scholtysik- Rhoda Walter Sarah Amen Cynthia Doll John Hartz Charles McNeill Straessle Kairui Wang Helen Ampt Selina Duncan Madeleine Hediger- Aimee Merrill F. Peter Seidel Shelby Warwar Trevor Atkinson Eugene Eccli Joder Paul Messerli Christine Senn Steven Webb Frank Balmer-Leupold Paul & Anne Ehrlich Robert Herendeen Rebecca Mills Michael Shannon Karen Willman Warren Bell Mohamed Elashry Jan Hoffmann Mark Mills Kenneth Shively Gary Wolff Oscar Bloch Kiana Escobar Alfred Hoffmann Ron Milo Michael L. Simpson David & Maggie Julie Brewer Bob Ewing Robert Jarrett Frances Moore David Smernoff Wooll Zach Brooks Lisa Fahey David Johns Daniel Muntwyler Jeffrey Soulen Hong Ying Charles Brown Jamil Fakhouri Jan Juffermans Takashi Nagatsuji Virginia Stark Chuck Zierdt Helena Brykarz Steven Fisher Muthu Krishna Pandian Milciades Noboa Dieter Steiner-Hamel Markus Zimmermann Urs Burckhardt Timothy Flores Kamatchi Pillai Jan Oen Valerie Stevens Annegreth Rosmarie Burkhard- Vicky Forgie Doug Kelbaugh Yonghyup Oh Elizabeth Stone Zimmermann-Martin Schindler Daniel Francis Stefan Kessler Jennifer Pahlka Muriel Strand Miles Burns David Franklin Ivo-Heinz Knöpfel Catherine Parrish Elsa Stuber Norman Burns Henry M. Frechette Eva Konigsberg Matthew Piercy Dorothy Sulock Perry Burr Jill Freedman Fran Korten Karen Pitts Chris Summerville Max Büsser René Frey Stephen Kraemer Roy Porter Irene Sury Kathleen Callahan Antoinette Gelzer- Joseph Kresse Gordon Rands Tilak Tenneti François Cellier Miescher Jane Kroll Thomas Richle Teodora Tomasevic Don Chisholm Michael Gerber Sarosh Kumana Marci Rinkoff Buck John Paul Cisneros David Gibson Bobby Ladson Cédric Rochat Jose Valle Colin Clark Robert & Lianna Louisa Leavitt Jeanne Roy Pieter van den Eijkel Bruno Clémentin Gilman Kana Frank Ryan W. J. Van Ry John B. Cobb, Jr. Tim Goedemé Leonhardtsberger Marie Ryd Phoebe Varunok Kristin Cobble Daniel Goldscheider Ben & Cynthia Leslie- Preeti Sarangarajan Terry Vogt Robin Cozette Max Grad Bole Mozaffar Sarrafi Dietrich Waack Bruno Curchod Danielle Griffith William Lidicker Hillary Saylor Paul Wack Sefton Darby Barbara Grob Rob Lilley Jürg Schaufelberger Frederick Edmund Davey Richard Grossman Paul Lukosi Christian Schlatter Wackernagel 15 WHO WE ARE

Board of Directors Science and Policy Jorgen Randers, Professor Our Team Frank Thompson Susan Burns, Co-Founder Advisory Council of Climate Strategy, Pragyan Bharati, Ph.D. Mimi Torres and Director of Finance for Terry A’Hearn, Chief Norwegian School of Michael Borucke Mathis Wackernagel, Ph.D. Change, Global Footprint Management Executive at Scottish Sandra Browne Robert Williams Network Environment Protection Peter Raven, Former Jamshyd Godrej, President, Missouri Helena Brykarz Sebastian Winkler Agency Susan Burns Golnar Zokai Chairman and Managing Oscar Arias, Former Botanical Gardens, Director, Godrej & Boyce President, Costa Rica leading botanist Amanda Diep Mfg Co. Ltd. Lester Brown, Founder, William E. Rees, Co-creator Derek Eaton Interns Daniel Goldscheider, Earth Policy Institute of the Ecological Footprint Leticia Figueroa Benjamin Bellman Founder and CEO, Karl-Henrik Robèrt, Melissa Fondakowski Paperless, Inc. Herman Daly, Katelin Breck H.E. Razan Khalifa Al Intellectual father of Founder, The Natural Step Phillip Fullon Mahsa Fatemi Mubarak, Secretary Ecological Economics Emil Salim, Former Alessandro Galli, Ph.D. Jeanette Hardiman General, Environment Fabio Feldmann, Former Indonesian Minister of State Michel Gressot Shiyu Huang Minister of Environment, Agency - Abu Dhabi James Gustave Speth, Nicole Grunewald, Ph.D. Calvin Kuang Sarosh Kumana, São Paulo Founder of World Eric Garcetti, Mayor, Martin Halle Zhouyi Liao Investor, President, Resources Institute, leading Laurel Hanscom Serena Mancini Pacific Capital Los Angeles environmental advocate Stephen Groff, Vice Ingrid Heinrich Fatime-Zahra Medouar Management Will Steffen, Former Director, Rob Lilley, Investor, Member, President, Asia Annabel Hertz Jingling Mei Development Bank, Australian National Terra Global Capital University’s Climate Krina Huang Chiron Mukherjee Lynda Mansson, Southeast Asia/Pacific Katsunori Iha Louisa Pitney Tom Lovejoy, H. John Change Institute Director General, David Suzuki, Award- Ronna Kelly Hye Soo Choo MAVA Foundation Heinz III Center Kamila Kennedy Julia Marton-Lefèvre, winning scientist and Octavia Sun Louis de Montpellier, broadcaster Elias Lazarus Global Head, Official Former Director-General Institutions Group, State for IUCN M.S. Swaminathan, Kyle Lemle Affiliates Street Global Advisors Manfred Max-Neef, India’s leading scientist on David Lin, Ph.D. Muhamed Catic Terry Vogt, Managing Economist, recipient of sustainable food security Drew Lisac Gemma Cranston, Ph.D. Director, Terra Global Right Livelihood Award Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Laetitia Mailhes Steven Goldfinger, Ph.D. Capital Michael Meacher, Former Co-President, Club of Rome Jon Martindill Martin Kärcher Mathis Wackernagel, Minister of Environment, Dominique Voynet, Former Chris Nelder Member of Parliament, UK Environment Minister, Justin Kitzes, Ph.D. Co-creator of the Ecological Jason Ortego Footprint, Co-Founder and Rhodri Morgan, Former France, and Former Mayor, Robert Klijn CEO, Global Footprint First Minister for Wales Montreuil Giacomo Pascolini Joy Larson Network Norman Myers, Leading E.O. Wilson, Distinguished Sophia Perez Dan Moran, Ph.D. environmental scientist biologist, Harvard Pati Poblete Bonnie McBain, Ph.D. Honorary Chair Daniel Pauly, Leading University Loredana Serban Alfonso Peña André Hoffmann, Vice marine ecologist Diane Stark Yoshihiko Wada Chairman, Roche 16 WHO WE ARE

CLIENTS Educational institutions CONTRIBUTORS Donated goods and Cornell University services Government agencies Princeton University AM Creative Inc. Cooley LLP Agence Française de University of Heidelberg Anomi Studio Daniel Goldscheider Développement University of Liechtenstein Youness Befqin Google Inc. Asian Development Bank Bob Dinetz Design Sarosh D. Kumana City of Santa Monica Consultancies Bullfrog Films Taproot Foundation Deutsche Gesellschaft für IDEA Consultants Cosmetto Terry Vogt Prima Vista Internationale Earth Economics Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Free Range Studios NGOs Mark Harvey European Environment Emirates Wildlife Society – Leena Launay Iyengar Agency (EEA) WWF Federal Office for the WWF – China Maddox Design Environment (BAFU) WWF – International Sean McGuire Kanton Basel-Stadt WWF – Japan Pathwise Leadership Ministry of Climate Change WWF – Korea Charles F. Porcari and Environment WWF – Russia Evelyne Rottiers (formerly Ministry of Mary Jane Ryan Environment and Water), Corporations Schaffer & Combs UAE Tetra Pak North America Brian Shira Ministry of Environment, Techsoup Ecuador Tink Tank Studio Ministry of Natural Tobi Designs Resources and Forestry, The Tom Agency Ontario Triple Pundit Museu do Amanhã Patricia Wintroath, CPA Nord Rhein Westphalen United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

17 FINANCIALS

INCOME | JANUARY 1, 2015 – DECEMBER 31, 2015 All values shown in U.S. dollars

Foundations 2,431,884 Fee for Service 563,675 Individual Contributions 328,767 In-kind Contributions 211,597 License Fees 51,066 Income Speaking Honoraria 23,813 Royalties 162

Interest, Dividends, Unrealized Loss -6,084

Total Income $3,604,880

Consolidated across Swiss, U.S., and Belgian entities. 18 FINANCIALS

EXPENSES | JANUARY 1, 2015 – DECEMBER 31, 2015 All values shown in U.S. dollars

Payroll & Personnel Expenses 2,042,205 Professional Fees 705,365 Operations 471,893 Program Expenses 175,058 Travel 124,641 Expenses Computer-Related Expenses 39,159

Total Expenses $3,558,321

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