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Global Footprint Network

environmental organization
Also known as: GFN
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  • Country Overshoot Days 2024
    ecological footprint

    The (GFN)—a nonprofit organization that partnered with hundreds of cities, businesses, and other entities to advance the EF as a metric of sustainability—calculates the per capita global footprint. In 2023 the per capita global footprint was 2.6 gha. Since global biocapacity that year was 1.5 gha…

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    The (GFN)—a nonprofit organization that partnered with hundreds of cities, businesses, and other entities to advance the EF as a metric of sustainability—calculates the per capita global footprint. In 2023 the per capita global footprint was 2.6 gha. Since global biocapacity that year was 1.5 gha…

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