Treading Heavily on the Environment: China’s Growing Eco-Footprint Highlighted in New Report

air pollution in a chinese city photo
photo by Sheila via flickr

We’ve written about the concept of Eco-Footprint a number of times—what it is, how to calculate it, and how to reduce yours—and with the Olympics upon us it comes as no surprise that China’s environmental footprint might come into the spotlight.

A new report by the Global Footprint Network, WWF, and the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development does just that. While China is the...