Earth Overshoot Day 2020
- August 15, 2020
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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Subject: Environment
Context:
Earth Overshoot Day 2020 falls on August 22, more than three weeks later than in 2019, according to Global Footprint Network
Concept:
- Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year.
- Earth Overshoot Day is hosted and calculated by Global Footprint Network, an international research organization that provides decision-makers with a menu of tools to help the human economy operate within Earth’s ecological limits.
- The concept of Earth Overshoot Day was first conceived by Andrew Simms of the UK think tank New Economics Foundation, which partnered with Global Footprint Network in 2006 to launch the first global Earth Overshoot Day campaign. At that time, Earth Overshoot Day fell in October.