Our environmental deficit is now beyond nature’s ability to regenerate

We are heading fast in the wrong direction despite the world gearing up to approve new sustainable development goals and a new climate accord

The world enters ecological 'overshoot' this year on 13 August, six days earlier than last year. All the world's production and consumption for the rest of the year, this suggests, then runs up an environmental deficit beyond nature's ability to regenerate itself and safely absorb our economic waste. It's a highly conservative estimate, based on the best data available.