Environmental Changes

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Wat is een "ecological footprint"?

Ecological footprint

It measures the biologically productive area needed to provide for everything that people demand from nature: fruits and vegetables, meat, fish, wood, cotton and other fibres, as well as absorption of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning and space for buildings and roads.

The Netherlands ecological footprint

The Ecological Footprint for the Netherlands was 5.69 global hectares per person (in 2018) Global biocapacity was 1.58 global hectares per person (in 2018)

Key concepts

Climate change: hotter summers, colder winters

Carbon dioxide emissions – from cars, for example

Greenhouse gases – burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil)

Fuel-efficient – modern cars use less petrol than before

Charge/recharge – mobile phones, electric cars

This is bad for the environment.

Yes

No

What is a water footprint?

Next time........

we'll think about what YOU can do to reduce your carbon and water footprints!