20 February 2008
Single Outcome Agreements
A new briefing from the Local Footprints Project on how to use the footprint as an indicator, in line with the national indicators, as part of Single Outcome Agreements.
14 November 2007
Scottish Government adopts the Ecological Footprint as a performance measure
The
Scottish Government will use the Ecological Footprint as one of its performance
measures which was announced on 14 November 2007 as part of the Spending
Review. The National Performance Framework includes a national outcome
of: “... reduce the local and global environmental impact of our
consumption and production” and a national indicator and target: “reducing
our Ecological Footprint.”
Footprinting gives us a mechanism to measure the global impact of our everyday choices. It has shown that if everyone lived as we do in Scotland, we would need three planets to survive. Clearly Scotland’s global footprint is too large and we need to take steps to live within our environmental limits.
This website acts as a portal for individuals, organisations, local authorities, schools and businesses to find out more about footprinting so that they can start taking action to reducing their global impact.
The site is being maintained through the Local Footprints Project, a joint project between WWF Scotland and the Sustainable Scotland Network (SSN), with funding and support from Eco Schools Scotland, the Improvement Service, the Scottish Government and ScottishPower.
In 2005 Scottish residents took 4.3 million trips abroad – up from 2.5 million in 1995.
