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Material Footprint[edit]
Material Footprint (MF) is the attribution of global material extraction to domestic final demand of a country. The total material footprint is the sum of the material footprint for biomass, fossil fuels, metal ores and non-metal ores[1].
An example of Material footprint is the extraction of minerals in DRC, transporting the minerals to China, using the minerals to make a battery in China then transporting the battery to Denmark.
Material Footprint Indicator is one of the indicators to show whether green growth is happening.
Concepts[edit]
Domestic Material Consumption (DMC) and MF need to be looked at in combination as they cover the two aspects of the economy, production and consumption[1]. The DMC reports the actual amount of material in an economy and the material footprint the virtual amount required across the whole supply chain to service final demand.
A country can, for instance have a very high DMC because it has a large primary production sector for export or a very low DMC because it has outsourced most of the material intensive industrial process to other countries. The MF corrects for both phenomena[1].
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Wiedmann, Thomas O.; Schandl, Heinz; Lenzen, Manfred; Moran, Daniel; Suh, Sangwon; West, James; Kanemoto, Keiichiro (2013-09-03). "The material footprint of nations". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112 (20): 6271–6276. doi:10.1073/pnas.1220362110. ISSN 0027-8424.