Ecological Footprint

Ecological FootprintEcological Footprint

Calculating your Calculating your impactimpact

Reducing our Reducing our footprintfootprint

Difference between Difference between wants & needswants & needs

YOUR Ecological YOUR Ecological FootprintFootprint

Ecological Footprints are a Ecological Footprints are a measure of human impact on measure of human impact on the Earth. The footprint equals the Earth. The footprint equals the Earth’s cost to sustain one the Earth’s cost to sustain one person. It’s measured in person. It’s measured in hectares (or global hectares hectares (or global hectares “gha”) and represents the land “gha”) and represents the land area needed to provide area needed to provide resources and absorb waste resources and absorb waste and greenhouse gases and greenhouse gases produced by an individual.produced by an individual.

Ecological Footprint &Ecological Footprint & Bio-capacity Bio-capacity

Bio-capacity = The Earth’s Bio-capacity = The Earth’s resources available to meet resources available to meet human demands.human demands.

Ecological Footprint & Ecological Footprint & Bio-capacity by Bio-capacity by RegionRegionCountry/RegionCountry/Region Ecological Ecological

FootprintFootprint (gha per person)(gha per person)

Bio-capacityBio-capacity (gha (gha per person)per person)

WorldWorld 3.13.1 2.062.06

AfricaAfrica 1.371.37 1.801.80

Middle East & Central AsiaMiddle East & Central Asia 2.322.32 1.281.28

Asia - PacificAsia - Pacific 1.621.62 0.820.82

Latin America & CaribbeanLatin America & Caribbean 2.442.44 4.804.80

North AmericaNorth America 9.199.19 6.496.49

Europe (EU)Europe (EU) 4.694.69 2.322.32

Europe (Non-EU)Europe (Non-EU) 3.523.52 5.815.81

CanadaCanada 7.667.66 20.0520.05

Canada’s Current Canada’s Current FootprintFootprint

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/env_eco_foo-environment-ecological-env_eco_foo-environment-ecological-footprintfootprint

Ecological Footprint of Ecological Footprint of NationsNations

The map on the following slide shows The map on the following slide shows various countries and regions of the various countries and regions of the world proportionate to their production world proportionate to their production and consumption of commercially traded and consumption of commercially traded fuels. fuels.

All figures are in million metric tons of oil All figures are in million metric tons of oil equivalent.equivalent.

Ecological “Fuel” Footprint Ecological “Fuel” Footprint of Nationsof Nations

Ecological Footprint of Ecological Footprint of NationsNations

World Average –World Average – 3.1 hectares 3.1 hectares Biggest Footprint – United Arab Emerates– 15.9 hectaresBiggest Footprint – United Arab Emerates– 15.9 hectares Smallest Footprint – Bangladesh – 0.6 hectaresSmallest Footprint – Bangladesh – 0.6 hectares Average Canadian Footprint – 7.6 hectaresAverage Canadian Footprint – 7.6 hectares

Canada has the 9th highest footprint in the world!Canada has the 9th highest footprint in the world! Why is Canada’s average footprint so big?Why is Canada’s average footprint so big? What can we do to reduce our footprintWhat can we do to reduce our footprint??

Patterns of ConsumptionPatterns of Consumption

Calculate your footprint!Calculate your footprint!

http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/

http://www.myfootprint.org/

What you can do!What you can do!

http://www.davidsuzuki.org/what-you-can-do/http://www.davidsuzuki.org/what-you-can-do/

http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/all_publications/living_planet_report/2013_infographic/

WWF Living Planet ReportWWF Living Planet Report