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Cumulatively, all our individual footprints make up the unsustainable total demand. The solution to this problem is for people to take individual action to break down that large footprint. We need to change the way we live to combat climate change, conserve the world’s forests and protect our oceans. No-one wakes up in the morning and consciously decides to contribute to global warming; to help cut down a tropical rainforest; or to deprive future generations of a decent standard of living. But seemingly innocent decisions we make every day often have these unforeseen, far-reaching and. | October 2007 _ _ ._L WWF Alan Calcott and Jamie Bull CarbonPlan Ecological footprint of British city residents Acknowledgements The authors would like to express their gratitude to the people who gave their time and rendered assistance during the course of the preparation of this report. These include the Stockholm Environment Institute at York University for their assistance in providing the data used in the report and Anthony Field at WWF-UK for his contributions to the report. Background note on the authors CarbonPlan is an environmental consultancy which champions sustainable development in business. It specialises in working with business organisations to implement programmes to understand measure and reduce the carbon and ecological impacts associated with both their business operation and office premises or estate. In conjunction with Bristol Zoo Gardens and the National Wildlife Conservation Park CarbonPlan developed SALOME - a structured process to allow visitor attractions to systematically reduce impacts and move towards sustainability. Contents Executive summary 4 Introduction 8 What is the issue 10 What is Ecological Footprinting 12 The Ecological Footprint of the UK 14 Calculating a city footprint 16 Results 20 England - top 10 Smallest Footprints 21 top 10 Largest 22 10 Facts 23 Case Study London Transport 24 Winchester and Salisbury - a comparison 24 Scotland - smallest to largest footprints 28 10 Facts 29 Wales - smallest to largest footprints 30 10 Facts 31 Edinburgh and Cardiff - a comparison 32 Recommendations 35 Top 10 recommendations to reduce your footprint 36 Conclusions 38 Appendix The breakdown of city residents ecological footprint 39
