Group items tagged

"August 20 is Earth Overshoot Day 2013, marking the date when humanity exhausted nature's budget for the year. We are now operating in overdraft. For the rest of the year, we will maintain our ecological deficit by drawing down local resource stocks and accumulating carbon dioxide in the atmosphere."

"Earth 'overshoot day' - the day each year when our demands on the planet outstrip its ability to regenerate - comes six days earlier than 2014, with world's population currently consuming the equivalent of 1.6 planets a year"

"We are heading fast in the wrong direction despite the world gearing up to approve new sustainable development goals and a new climate accord"