Earth Overshoot Day 2016 | Museu do Amanhã

Earth Overshoot Day 2016

Observatory of Tomorrow

By August 8th, humanity will have used up nature’s resources for the entire year, according to data from Global Footprint Network, an international research organization that monitors how the world manages its natural resources and responds to climate change.

Earth Overshoot Day, on August 8th this year, marks the date when humanity’s annual demand on nature exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year.

The Museum of Tomorrow has prepared events that will help visitors reflect about our way of life nowadays, with overconsumption and waste. Here, you can find three articles about this theme.

The first was written by Fabio Feldmann, business leader, lawyer and environmental activist. The second, by By José Graziano da Silva, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations; the third, was written By Izabella Teixeira, former Environment Minister of Brazil.

Read the articles:

The responsibility of our generation by Fabio Feldmann

Food losses and waste: a challenge to sustainable development by José Graziano da Silva 

The following day after the Paris Agreement: what does it change? by Izabella Teixeira

Cerrado: the impact is on the table

 

 

Museum of Tomorrow is an Applied Sciences museum which explores the opportunities and challenges which humanity will be forced to tackle in the coming decades from the perspective of sustainability and conviviality. Launched December 2015 by Rio de Janeiro City Hall, Museum of Tomorrow is a Culture asset from Rio's Secretary of Culture currently managed by Instituto de Desenvolvimento e Gestão (IDG). Example of a well-succeeded partnership between public power and private initiative, it has already received over three million visitors since opening. With Santander Bank as a Master Sponsor and a wide network of partner sponsors as Shell, IBM, IRB-Brasil RE, Engie, Grupo Globo and Instituto CCR, the museum was originally conceived by Roberto Marinho Foundation.