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WESTERN EUROPE
source: www.rprogress.org/
publications/footprintnations2004.pdf
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Western European footprints: the overall change among countries between 1999 and 2000 was larger than in the USA, with some countries witnessing increases in their Ecological Footprint as others declined.- Norway and Italy, the European countries with the largest and smallest per capita Ecological Footprints, respectively, both had larger Footprints in 2000.
- In contrast, the Netherlands’ per capita Ecological Footprint, already smaller than the Western European average, decreased by 2.5% in 2000.
Ranked for highest decline to largest increase in Footprint(gha/capita) | | 1999
footprint | 2000
footprint | real
change | %
change | | Denmark | 5.71 | 5.32 | -0.39 | -6.82 | | Netherlands | 3.91 | 3.81 | -0.10 | -2.45 | | Austria | 4.97 | 4.87 | -0.09 | -1.91 | | United Kingdom | 4.80 | 4.72 | -0.08 | -1.60 | | Finland | 7.06 | 7.00 | -0.06 | -0.82 | | Germany | 4.28 | 4.26 | -0.02 | -0.55 | | Greece | 4.78 | 4.78 | 0.00 | 0.02 | | Norway | 8.16 | 8.17 | 0.01 | 0.11 | | Italy | 3.24 | 3.26 | 0.02 | 0.65 | | France | 5.68 | 5.74 | 0.05 | 0.93 | | Ireland | 4.90 | 4.97 | 0.07 | 1.44 | | Switzerland | 5.11 | 5.26 | 0.15 | 3.19 | | Spain | 4.75 | 4.90 | 12,3 | 12,3 | | Portugal | 5.18 | 5.34 | 0.16 | 3.04 | | Belgium & Luxem. | 4.80 | 5.11 | 0.31 | 6.39 | | Sweden | 7.27 | 7.95 | 0.68 | 9.37 | | Western Europe | 5.29 | 5.34 | 0.05 | 1.01 |
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