Schneider Electric: ‘Let’s #MoveTheDate of Earth Overshoot Day’

Schneider Electric partnered with Global Footprint Network to demonstrate how existing technologies can help to move the date of Earth Overshoot Day. Retrofitting existing buildings, industries and data centres and upgrading electricity production with renewables alone would move the date by 21 days. Earth Overshoot Day marks the date in the year by when humanity will have consumed more from the planet, including food, fibres, timber, and absorption capacity for carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning than the planet’s ecosystems can renew in the entire year. Schneider Electric, the leader…

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