In December 2025, Global Footprint Network launched the Country Overshoot Day calendar for 2026. The dates are based on the National Footprint and Biocapacity Accounts, 2025 edition. All the details are available here

To explore its meaning, Mathis Wackernagel was interviewed by Population Connection, and below is an excerpt of the full interview…
Source: Global Footprint Network
Global Footprint Network
- “We Should Listen More to Our Self-Interest”
- Prepared for the Predictable? What a New Assessment of National Strategies Reveals about Resource Security
- Overshoot Ready? Grading the Economic Strategies of Forty Countries with AI
- Time to Build the Dream Team: Every Country (and City, and Company) Needs an Overshoot Task Force
- The Planet Sent an Invoice. Most Governments Haven’t Opened the Envelope
- Announcement: Earth Overshoot Day 2026 falls on July 30
- Peter Raven (1936-2026)
- Everyone Considers Themselves to Be a Special Case
- Country Overshoot Days 2026
- Japan’s New Corporate Compass

