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Food security in a world of overshoot
Humanity’s demand for biological resources has outpaced our planet’s ability to regenerate resources since the 1970s (1). The persistence of this overshoot has led to tensions. Shocks in supply chains associated with the global pandemic [...]
Implications of the Ukraine invasion: a resource overview
By Leo Wambersie, research associate, David Lin, Ph.D., chief science officer, and Mathis Wackernagel, Ph.D., founder and president The Ukraine invasion comes with heart-breaking human suffering. It will also impact people far away from the [...]
CountryRisk.io Webinar: Nature and Country Risk
Webinar: Nature and country risk from CountryRisk.io on Vimeo. Ecological data confirms that many forms of natural capital and the associated ecosystem services are in decline. There is growing recognition that biodiversity and nature-related risks [...]
Tackling Ecological Overshoot: The food system’s 10 “impossible imperatives”
Global Footprint Network and its partners characterize the food dilemma through a set of ten tough challenges we call the “impossible imperatives.” The imperative to use no more fossil fuels. The food system, and particularly farms, will have [...]
The PRI Podcast: Climate Change in Sovereign Debt Assessment
PRI’s Jasper Cox speaks with Joanna Woods from Franklin Templeton and Susan Burns from Global Footprint Network about how climate change affects sovereign bonds through both physical risk and transition risk, and how investors [...]
Resource security for poverty eradication
72% of the world population live in countries faced with a precarious situation. These countries both (1) run a biological resource deficit (where demand for biological resources exceeds regeneration) and (2) generate less than world-average income, limiting [...]