A recent study by researchers at the University of British Columbia and the Global Footprint Network probed how nations have been using resources at their disposal towards sustaining both economic and ecological security.
The project’s lead researcher, Rashid Sumaila, explained that through an “ecolonomics index, or Eco2 Index”, the study measured and ranked the overall economic and ecological health of 150 countries to remind them of the need to reduce not just fiscal deficits but also “ecological deficits” for the sake of future generations of people.
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