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2007 Annual Report 2020 07 GLOBAL FOOTPRINT NETWORK 2007 ANNUAL REPORT 2020. LOOKING AHEAD 1818. FINANCIALS 1616. WHO WE ARE 1313. DONOR PROFILES 1212. ADVANCING THE SCIENCE 1112. CREATING BUZZ 1010. THE INSIDE STORY 88. PARTNER HIGHLIGHTS 66. GLOBAL FOOTPRINT, LOCAL ACTION 44. ENDING POVERTY: OUR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE 22. THE FOOTPRINT OF NATIONS 11. LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR At Global Footprint Network we see ourselves as planetary accountants, using the Ecological Footprint to keep track of how much nature we have, how much we use, and who uses what. We believe monitoring our ecological assets is essential for sustainable development, particularly in today’s world, where humankind is in overshoot, using 30 percent more resources in a year than the planet can renew. While our data offers some bad news, it is also a great source of hope, providing people with the information necessary to drive action toward positive change. We see this over and over as we work in Europe, Switzerland, Africa, India, China, Japan, Belgium, Ecuador, France, Canada, and Australia, and with businesses, researchers, scientists, and cities all over the world. The more they know about their resource base – what they have and how they use it – the more confident they are about their future and their ability to thrive in a time of rapid change. Throughout this report you will see bits of bad news juxtaposed against promising new projects, collaborations, and progress being made by people just like you and me who have chosen to engage. Whether you are reading about the growing leadership of our 80+ partner organizations, like WWF’s decision to organize all “ While our data offers some bad its activities around the goal of one-planet living, or you are reading about efforts being made to get the nation with the largest Footprint news, it is also a great source of hope, in the world, the United Arab Emirates, to adopt the Ecological providing people with the information Footprint as an indicator, in the following pages you will find hope. You will see how the Footprint has reached a new level of interest necessary to drive action toward in regional governments worldwide. You’ll learn about why leading positive change.” funders like the Skoll Foundation are investing in our vision of making Footprint accounting as prominent as the GDP. You will better understand the future that we are heading into, eyes open, rooted in data, and positioned for global change. I am thrilled to be able to present you with a 2007 Annual Report that is as much as anything an exploration of hope. The first section maps the impact the Ecological Footprint is having in the world and the second section lays out the ways in which Global Footprint Network has been able to strengthen itself, advance the Footprint, support our partners and grow our base of support, and move closer to our end goal: living within the means of one planet. By reading this report and supporting our work you are a part of this success. Thank you. Mathis Wackernagel 1 THE FOOTPRINT OF NATIONS In 2005, we launched a global campaign to institutionalize the Ecological EUROPE In Europe, the Footprint is Footprint in at least 10 key nations by 2015. We named it Ten-in-Ten. We becoming the indicator of choice believe the way to make the Ecological Footprint as prominent a metric as the for many sustainability leaders. GDP is to build success stories country by country. In the first two years we have This year the Footprint underwent initiated projects in over two dozen nations. Our central aim is to encourage review by the European Union’s the review of the National Footprint Accounts, in a process initiated by national Environment Directorate-General. governments and conducted by independent third parties. The strategy: once The Footprint also was featured prominently at the historic Beyond a country gets behind Footprint data they will use it to set environmental policy, to GDP Conference this November, guide investment decisions, to inform trade and economic policy, and much where over 500 high-level Euro- more. Switzerland has completed its national review, and in Japan, Belgium, pean environmental, economic The United Arab Emirates, Ecuador, and France, national reviews are underway. and policy leaders, met to discuss alternatives to the GDP. SCOTLAND In November, the Scottish Government announced plans to reduce Scotland’s Ecological Footprint, to use the Footprint as a National Perfor- mance measurement, and to include the Footprint as a metric CANADA In Canada, the Foot- to inform its formal economic print is being integrated into the strategy. The Local Footprints national Canadian Index of Project and the Stockholm Well-being, a tool developed by Environment Institute released a the Atkinson Charitable Foundation report that analyzes Scotland’s (ACF) and other Canadian experts, Carbon Footprint and identifies to measure the economic, health, priority actions for reducing social and environmental progress Scotland’s carbon dioxide of Canadians. This year, Global emissions by 80 percent by 2050. Footprint Network has helped Statistics Canada evaluate the Footprint’s pertinence for Canada, FRANCE In October, President and has co-produced, with WWF Sarkozy’s new government held Canada, the 2007 Canadian a strategic meeting of French Living Planet Report. environmental leaders, the “Grenelle,” to develop a new policy agenda. One outcome ECUADOR In October, Global of the Grenelle was a national Footprint Network signed agree- commitment to review the ments with the Vice President of country’s Ecological Footprint Ecuador to conduct a collabora- accounts. The Institut Français tive review of Ecuador’s National de l’Environnement will conduct Footprint Accounts, and with the the review and a formal collab- Mayor of Quito to help conduct orative agreement with Global a Footprint study of Ecuador’s Footprint Network is in progress. capitol city. The public signing was part of Clima Latino, the largest ever Latin American conference SWITZERLAND The Footprint is on climate change. One proposal on track to becoming central to from the event calls for all sustainability policy and decision- the country’s municipalities to making in Switzerland. In 2006 measure and monitor their the Swiss government commis- Ecological Footprints. sioned a full scientific review of the Swiss National Footprint Accounts, which received excellent media coverage in Swiss news- National Accounts reviews complete or in process papers and radio, and Swiss Active government collaborations and Footprint projects in process officials are now incorporating Footprint data into the nation’s Early discussions sustainability development plan. 2 WALES Wales has adopted the BELGIUM Global Footprint AUSTRIA This year, two Global Ecological Footprint as an indica- Network has formed a research Footprint Network Austrian tor of sustainability, and this partnership with the government partners, Plattform Footprint and year, Partner WWF launched the of Belgium via the Central Federal IFF Social Ecology, launched a One Planet Wales campaign. Planning Office and Belgium’s German language Footprint It also released a report written by statistical office. The partnership calculator. They have gained the University of Manchester’s will identify a research agenda support from Austrian Public Tele- Centre for Urban Regional Ecology, for a full review of the Belgian vision and the Austrian Ministry that challenges Welsh leaders to National Footprint Accounts. In of the Environment, resulting in reduce the nation’s Footprint and addition, the Footprint, and WWF a groundswell of interest, media improve its citizen’s quality of life Belgium’s Footprint calculator, attention and web traffic around by increasing efficiency in energy have received major media the Footprint in Austria. and resource management. coverage in Belgium, including a multi-part series in Le Soir and a Flemish television special. FINLAND In 2007, Global Footprint Network partners, the Finnish Ministry for the Environ- ment and the Finnish Environment Institute conducted a full review and ‘re-calculation’ of Finland’s Ecological Footprint. Results will be released to the public and policymakers in early 2008. GERMANY The Ministry for the Environment in Germany has commissioned a study of Ger- many’s Ecological Footprint. The study, conducted by Partners Best Foot Forward, SERI (Sustain- JAPAN In 2006, the Japanese able Energy Research Institute), Government adopted a National and Ecologic, an independent Basic Environment Plan that uses third-party reviewer, will test the the Ecological Footprint to monitor accuracy of Germany’s National progress, and the Japanese Footprint calculations and reveal Ministry of the Environment began areas for improvement. a review of Japan’s National Footprint Accounts. Global Foot- THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES print Network is providing technical The Environment Agency of Abu assistance and training to the Dhabi has launched a national Ministry and other Japanese initiative, Al Basama Al Beeiya research organizations involved (Ecological Footprint) to improve in the collaboration. the UAE’s National Footprint Accounts data. The initiative involves multiple research and policy stakeholders and aims to extend Ecological Footprint analysis into national policy by developing guidelines for establish- ing a more resource savvy nation. If everyone lived like the average European, we would need 2.6 planets to support us FACT 3 ENDING POVERTY: OUR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE Traditionally, human development plans have not In 2007, Global Footprint Network began work considered ecological constraints. But with climate in Africa, India, and China to explore how change hitting drought-prone countries, and with Footprint analysis can provide a fuller picture of serious resource shortages in places such as in Haiti, the challenges of development and can help Rwanda and Darfur, it is clear that human well implement sustainable solutions. being can no longer be separated from ecological This year, we have made strides in bringing the health.
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