Eco NW - State of the region

Resource flows and impacts of production and consumption in the NW

Eco footprint

  • The NW region's eco-footprint is just over the UK average at 5.45 global hectares per person
  • This is 3 times bigger than our fair 'earth share' of 1.8 global hectares, i.e. if the world's productive land area was equally shared with the world's population
  • The local areas with the highest eco-footprint per head are Macclesfield and Fylde: and with the lowest, Halton and Barrow
  • Liverpool, Manchester and Blackpool each have a eco-footprint of 200 times their actual area
  • The sectors with the largest eco-footprint are food / drink: and home / energy
  • Residents in the NW have the third lowest transport footprint at 0.62 gha/cap, due mainly to low car mileage and related expenditure for private transport
  • In the category 'electricity consumption and gas distribution,' the NW ranks second lowest with 0.39 gha/cap