Europe 2005: The ecological footprint

Report by WWF showing that the twenty-five EU Member States have run up an environmental deficit of 220 per cent of their biological capacity. According to the report's authors, this means that Europeans now rely on the resources of the rest of the world to make up their increasing ecological deficit.

• Primary Source

WWF European Policy Office: Press Release, 14.6.05: Europe’s environmental deficit jeopardizes prosperity http://www.wwf.eu/media_centre/?21201/Europe’s-environmental-deficit-jeopardizes-prosperity

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