2011 Annual Report

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Switzerland has made the Ecological Footprint an official indicator.

Footprint in Swiss statistics: The Ecological Footprint is an indicator in Switzerland’s sustainable development monitoring system, and is published annually by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office. The Federal Office of Spatial Development and the Statistical Office are using the Footprint in the Swiss government’s “Sustainable Development Report 2012” launched at Rio+20. The report documents that Swiss residents consume three times more biocapacity than is available per person worldwide.

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