People in Finland have consumed their share of the Earth's natural resources by Sunday, 6 April, according to WWF, the World Wildlife Fund.
Each year, Overshoot Day marks the point at which the planet's annual biocapacity would be exhausted if everyone consumed as much as the residents of that country.
Finns consume their share of the Earth's natural resources at a faster rate than the majority of the world's population.
On Overshoot Day, the consumption of natural resources exceeds the planet's ability to regenerate renewable resources and absorb the greenhouse gas emissions caused by the use of fossil fuels.
According to the WWF, Finland's overconsumption is driven by excessive logging, the high consumption of animal-based food as well as the use of fossil fuels.
Overconsumption of natural resources is the root cause of both biodiversity loss and the climate crisis, the WWF said. According to the environmental group, a key obstacle to ending overconsumption is the financial incentives that sustain environmentally harmful practices.
"The overconsumption of natural resources and the harm caused to nature is simply too cheap, often even completely free," WWF Finland's conservation advisor, Jussi Nikula, said in a press release.
Overshoot Days are calculated annually by the Global Footprint Network, which argues humans use the ecological resources equivalent to 1.7 Earths.
