The government has also set standards to ensure lighting product imports are energy-efficient, especially for the housing sector, which represents 57 per cent of the country's
ecological footprint.
When controlling for population, the country with the largest
ecological footprint was Luxembourg, where people consume more than their land can support at a rate 10 times that of the world average.
Caption: Bangladesh (8th of 140) Bangladesh has the second smallest
Ecological Footprint in the world--bringing it in at eighth place in the Happy Planet Index.
The
ecological footprint varies with consumption and production efficiency.
Rapidly developing countries such as Qatar and the United Arab Emirates account for some the highest
ecological footprints in the world, while poorer nations such as India and Indonesia have lower footprints that are within nature's threshold.
The Sustainable Human Development Index (SHDI) developed by Hermele (Hermele 2009) further tries to interconnect the social pillar with the environmental pillar using
ecological footprint as an indicator.
The Welsh Government's sustainable development scheme One Wales One Planet states: "Within the lifetime of a generation, Wales should use only its fair share of the Earth's resources, and our
ecological footprint be reduced to the global average availability of resources - 1.
The
ecological footprint metric is used by many nations and organizations to monitor their activities' environmental sustainability by comparing the level of their consumption with the biocapacity available domestically.
Also working closely with the government on a project called the
Ecological Footprint Initiative, which is project aimed at reducing the
ecological footprint of the country.
We also compared GPI with several other well-known indicators for the same countries:
Ecological Footprint, Biocapacity, Life Satisfaction, HDI, and the Gini coefficient as described below.
Knowledgeably compiled and deftly co-edited by Robert and Brenda Vale, "Living within a Fair Share
Ecological Footprint" is a 344 page compendium comprised of twenty germane articles by experts in their fields on how to equitably share the burden of dealing with humanity's
ecological footprint on the planet.
Is Africa's
ecological footprint on the right path?
