Earth Overshoot Day 2024 Uk. This year it fell on 1 august. Earth overshoot day is the day in the year when humanity’s use of planetary resources and ecological services in a given year exceeds what earth’s ecosystems can regenerate or replace in that year.

Earth overshoot day marks the date when humanity’s annual consumption of resources exceeds the earth’s capacity to regenerate those resources in the same year. The day of the year on which humanity’s demand on nature exceeds the earth’s annual biological capacity to regenerate.