It is our pleasure to invite you to two upcoming events in April for the launch of our open data platform, the Ecological Footprint Explorer. Please mark your calendar for each event below and watch for future emails with details on registration for our April 27 event in San Francisco.
What is the Ecological Footprint Explorer?
Every year, Global Footprint Network produces a new edition of its National Footprint Accounts, which measure ecological resource use and resource capacity of countries from 1961 to the present. Based on approximately 15,000 data points per country per year, this data has been used to influence policy in more than a dozen countries, including Ecuador, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Russia, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates.
This year, for the first time ever, the National Footprint Accounts will be available in their entirety for anyone to download on a new platform, the Ecological Footprint Explorer (beta version at http://data.footprintnetwork.org). The Footprint Explorer will officially launch on April 5, when we also will release the 2017 edition of our National Footprint Accounts.
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Ecological Footprint Explorer Webinar April 5 11 am PT / 2 pm ET / 6 pm GMT REGISTER NOW April 6 7 am PT/ 10 am ET / 2 pm GMT REGISTER NOW
Learn about the features of the Global Footprint Network’s new open data platform, the Ecological Footprint Explorer. We will show you how to generate your own graphs, download data, and combine our data with other datasets to draw additional insights. We will also highlight a few examples of how political leaders and decision-makers have used our National Footprint Accounts data.
Unleashing Data for Sustainability A panel discussion and celebration of the Ecological Footprint Explorer launch April 27 5:30 pm PT (Registration Coming Soon) Capgemini Applied Innovation Exchange 425 Brannan Street, San Francisco (also to be webcast on FacebookLive)
Panel:
- Joel Makower, Chairman and Executive Editor, GreenBiz – Moderator
- Karin Tuxen-Bettman, PhD, Program Manager, Google Earth Outreach
- Davida Herzl, CEO, Aclima
- Kiran Jain, Chief Resilience Officer, City of Oakland
- Erin Cooke, Sustainability Director, San Francisco International Airport
- Laurel Hanscom, Director, Programs, Global Footprint Network
- Dr. James Robey, Global Head of Corporate Sustainability, Capgemini; Henley Business School
We are very excited to make our data more widely available and hope you can join us for either event. If you have any questions, please email [email protected]. And stay tuned for registration details for our San Francisco event.
Warmest regards,
The Global Footprint Network Team