Since 1990 the global Ecological Footprint has been measured from 1961 until today. Since 2003 the Global Footprint Network are publishing the national footprint and bio capacity account for each and every country thanks to help of UN statistics. This year demand exceeds planets ability to renew by 60%, which means we’re are not within the planetary boundaries and definitely use much more resources than what is sustainable.
To guarantee non-biased and objective gathering of data the Footprint Data Foundation (FoDaFo) has been founded to keep on steward of the accounting and reproduce them with the support of York University and a broader academic network.
It’s very important that data is being save guard and objectively measured and analysed. Please check out the website of the organisation where they also have a blog and commitments from several countries on #movethedate and don’t miss out the data illustrations on the Footprint Networks data website.