EU Overshoot Day: living beyond nature's limits

If everybody in the world lived like the average EU resident, we would have used up nature�s budget for the year by the 10 May, and would need 2.8 planets. This is unsustainable - we�re depleting natural ecosystems at a faster rate than what can be renewed. The solutions to reduce the EU�s Ecological Footprint are at hand � but there is only a narrow window for the EU to act.