{"id":11727,"date":"2017-09-05T21:12:48","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.footprintnetwork.org\/?p=11727\/"},"modified":"2021-07-22T11:54:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T18:54:35","slug":"schneider-electric-partners-global-footprint-network-movethedate-earth-overshoot-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.footprintnetwork.org\/2017\/09\/05\/schneider-electric-partners-global-footprint-network-movethedate-earth-overshoot-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Schneider Electric partners with Global Footprint Network to #movethedate of Earth Overshoot Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

OAKLAND, CA, Sept. 4, 2017<\/strong> – Global Footprint Network<\/a> and Schneider Electric<\/a> signed a global partnership to engage people around the world in moving the date of Earth Overshoot Day\u2014the date when humanity’s annual demand on nature exceeds what Earth can regenerate over the entire year.<\/p>\n

Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management and automation, and Global Footprint Network, an international research organization that has pioneered the Ecological Footprint resource accounting metric, are joining forces to promote sustainable solutions that are available today and estimate their impact on moving the date of Earth Overshoot Day<\/a>. For instance, reducing the energy intensity of homes, buildings, and cities will #movethedate of Overshoot Day; halving the carbon component of the global Ecological Footprint would move the date of Overshoot Day by 89 days. Humanity needs to move the date only 4.5 days per year to operate within the means of our one planet before 2050.<\/p>\n

Global Footprint Network is highlighting four solution areas to #movethedate: cities, energy, food, and population. A new mobile-friendly Footprint Calculator<\/a> launched by the organization for Earth Overshoot Day 2017 highlights these four solution areas after users have calculated their Ecological Footprint and personal Earth Overshoot Day.<\/p>\n

We hope our new Footprint Calculator enables millions more people around the world to explore sustainability solutions and gain an uplifting sense of the possibilities available to society. Many of these solutions directly align with Schneider Electric’s values, practices, and capabilities in the energy and city solutions space. Schneider Electric is a logical partner as a company whose business model focuses on creating a sustainable future.<\/p>\n