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Material Footprint

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

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

^ ^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.

[:0-1] 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.

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