Global Footprint Network

An analysis by Global Footprint Network and Greenings shows that no country’s national strategy meaningfully recognizes ecological overshoot, despite growing evidence that resource security now underpins economic stability. Check out the press release here

Most policy discussions about sustainability focus on emission targets, biodiversity commitments, or climate finance. A new report from Global Footprint Network and Greenings, “Prepared for the Predictable? Overshoot and th...

Imagine trying to grade the economic strategies of forty different countries for how seriously they take resource security, using documents that range from five-year development plans to budget speeches to national security reviews, written in a dozen languages, by governments with wildly different priorities and vocabularies. Now imagine doing that fairly, consistently, and ...

Every well-run organization eventually asks itself an uncomfortable question: where are our blind spots? Smart companies run the exercise regularly, pulling people from finance, operations, legal, and the front line into one room to stress-test the strategy against risks nobody wants to think about on a normal Tuesday. It’s not a fun meeting. It’s an essential one.

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Imagine a business that tracks its revenue obsessively, down to the penny, every quarter, every earnings call, every headline. But it never checks its warehouse. It has no idea how much inventory is left, how fast it’s being used, or whether the shelves will be bare next year. It just keeps cheerfully selling off a stockroom nobody has checked in decades.