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Mathis Wackernagel, PhD is co-creator of the ecological footprint analysis and CEO of Global Footprint Network. He has promoted sustainability on six Constraints Rule continents and lectured at more than 100 universities. Awards granted to him include the 2015 IAIA award, the 2013 Prix Nature Swisscanto, the 2012 very day, more people share this goal would require reducing net the health of the region’ s threatened or the world represents what their Blue Planet Prize, the 2012 Binding-Prize for Nature Conservation, the 2012 a Finite Planet this planet. At the same time, carbon emissions to zero no later than assets by integrating environmental respective productive areas can renew, Kenneth Boulding Memorial Award, the 2011 Zayed International Prize for Epeople’s expectations for 2050. Yet others, such as OPEC in concerns into key development including forest lands, grazing lands, the Environment, an honorary doctorate from the University of Berne in 2007, comfort and better lives are rising. its 2015 World Oil Outlook, project decisions. The strategy’s objectives cropland and fishing grounds. the 2007 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, the 2006 WWF Award for Both trends lead to a growing global increasing demand for fossil fuels also include ensuring a high quality of In order to compare all Footprints and Conservation Merit and the 2005 Herman Daly Award of the U.S. Society for Ecological Economics. From 2011 to 2014, Dr Wackernagel was also a demand for natural resources and over the next decades. But such a life for Mediterranean people without biocapacity across the globe, these services, including food, carbon Visiting Professor at Cornell University. sequestration, fiber (for clothing and path would put in question a swift and further degrading the environment and are expressed in a standardised unit: paper) and wood (for furniture). smooth transition to a low-carbon, within the carrying capacity of regional global hectares. These are biologically Global Footprint Network is a research organisation that is changing how the low-risk economy. Growing population ecosystems. productive hectares with world average world manages its natural resources and responds to climate change. Since Human demand on our planet’s and higher demand for renewable But reality is far from this goal. According biological productivity for a given year. 2003 we have engaged with more than 50 nations, 30 cities and 70 global resources, however, already exceeds natural resources combined with either to Global Footprint Network’s analysis, The Carbon Footprint is the portion of partners to deliver scientific insights that have driven high-impact policy and what Earth can renew by over 60%. We fossil fuels scenario have significant the Mediterranean region now uses the Ecological Footprint associated investment decisions. Together, we are creating a future where all of us can can continue overusing and depleting implications for every country. Resource- approximately two and a half times with fossil fuels use. It measures the thrive within our planet’s limits. natural capital as long as the stocks intensive infrastructure and economic more natural resources and ecological biologically productive space needed www.footprintnetwork.org last. But that is a path that undermines sectors are most likely to be exposed services than what its ecosystems can to sequester the carbon emissions our current and future economic to greater risk, including potential renew (www.footprintnetwork.org/med ). from burning fossil fuels. Currently, the possibilities. stranding of significant portions of This can be measured with Ecological Carbon Footprint makes up nearly 60% helps us find footprint reduction options makes the assessment consistent This global situation also holds true those sectors’ assets. Footprint accounting. Just as a bank of the world’s Ecological Footprint. If we that are economically and politically with the investors’ explicitly stated in the Mediterranean region. As the Consequently, carefully managing any statement tracks expenditures achieve the goals of the Paris climate desirable. assumed future — whether investors regional population has doubled over the city’s, region’s or country’s natural against income, Ecological Footprint agreement, the Carbon Footprint will To find strategic wins that can provide are government agencies, private last five decades, per capita resource resource dependence by setting accounting measures how a population have to fall to zero by 2050. footprint reduction gains while creating entities or a partnership between the Mathis Wackernagel consumption has increased by 24% clear goals and pursuing Ecological uses resources and measures what is Analysing these resource risks, economic value, finance tools are two. Such assumed futures help choose Ph.D., Founder & CEO and residents now demand 2.5 times Footprint reduction strategies, including available. The Ecological Footprint adds opportunities are also revealed. Human needed to accurately assess the more meaningful parameters for a more Global Footprint Network more resources from the Mediterranean renewable energy, smart infrastructure, up all human demands on nature that ingenuity enables us to build a resource- costs and benefits of each option. For comprehensive cost benefit analysis. ecosystems than what they can renew. innovation and efficiency, would be the compete for biologically productive efficient economy that provides for a example, the Net Present Value Plus Such assessments show that many Both regionally and globally, the increase cornerstone for securing resilience and space — demands for fruits and thriving society within the means of (NPV+) method (www.footprintnetwork. sustainability policies are both fiscally in human-induced CO2 emissions is economic stability. vegetables, meat, fish, wood, cotton for nature. In a world of climate change org/npvPLUS ) can help identify where and environmentally responsible. among the largest footprint drivers. We therefore welcome a shift towards clothing, space for urban infrastructure and resource constraints, such an footprint reductions go hand in hand with Therefore, the combination of risk As part of the 2015 Paris climate circular economy, made possible by and absorption of carbon dioxide from economy will become any nation or financial gains. NPV+ goes beyond the and opportunity tools allows us to agreement, 195 countries plus the the implementation of Sustainable burning fossil fuels. region’s strongest asset. The current conventional net present value analysis identify policies that reduce risk while European Union pledged to collectively Consumption and Production This Footprint then is compared with potential for Footprint reductions is by including currently unpriced factors, strengthening our economic standing. limit global warming to a maximum of 2 policies and activities as well as the all the available biologically productive vast. At the same time, this requires such as the cost of environmental After all, our world is finite. But the degrees Celsius overall and 1.5 degrees Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable space (called biocapacity). The significant foresight for a whole country degradation and health and benefits possibilities are not. by the end of the century. Achieving Development which aims to guarantee biocapacity of a state, region, nation to transform. Evaluating opportunities like ecological resiliency. NPV+ also

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