Global Footprint Network reports: Africa, China, India

Earlier this year, NNC attended a Global Footprint Network event at Swissnex to celebrate the completion of their recent Global Footprint Africa report.  Since then, they have completed a global footprint report on China and, collaborating with the Confederation of Indian Industry, released a business perspective report on India’s Ecological Footprint.  A critical concept of all these reports is ecological overshoot, which describes a condition where humanity’s demands on the biosphere exceed its capacity to regenerate itself.  Global Footprint Network found that all of these regions are in, or approaching, overshoot.  According to the reports: While Africans per capita consume…