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Activists place thousands of protest placards in front of the Reichstag building, home of the german federal parliament, Bundestag, during a protest rally of the 'Fridays for Future' movement in Berlin, Germany, Friday, April 24, 2020.

From Thursday, July 28, the world is living on credit until the end of the year. "Overshoot Day" – the date by which humanity has consumed all the resources that ecosystems can regenerate in one year – has been reached, according to calculations by the US organization Global Footprint Network. The fateful date comes one day earlier than last year, confirming that the lull caused by the health crisis was short-lived – in 2020, thanks to lockdowns and restrictions, Overshoot Day moved back three weeks compared to 2019.

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The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), which originated the campaign around Overshoot Day, notes that: "The only lulls were not chosen or anticipated. They correspond to energy (1973, 1979), financial (2008) and health (2020) crises." Pierre Cannet, director of advocacy and campaigns at WWF France, believes that this Overshoot Day illustrates that "our system has stagnated since the Paris agreements."

The planet's 'ecological budget'

For Laetitia Mailhes, spokesperson for Global Footprint Network, this year once again confirms that "competition for access to the resources we depend on is on the rise," which raises the question of whether humanity will eventually be able to "do what we need to do to live within our planet's ecological budget. There is a limit that we must acknowledge."

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