Summary of Recommended Updates to the
National Footprint Accounts
Memo for Second
Public Comment Period, 2007
October 15, 2007
– November 15, 2007
Prepared by Global
Footprint Network’s National Accounts Committee
In preparation for the 2008 release of the National
Footprint Accounts, Global Footprint Network’s National Accounts
Committee has recommended a series of methodological and data updates to the
2006 National Footprint Accounts. These recommendations were opened to a first
public comment period from September 1 through October 1, 2007.
The Committee has responded to all of the comments received
during the first public comment period. These responses can be downloaded by
clicking on this
link. Please contact data@footprintnetwork.org
if you have any difficulties opening or reading this document.
This survey contains all of the original recommendations from
period 1 reprinted again for additional comment. The Committee invites comments
on its responses posted above, or any additional comments on the original
recommendations.
PLEASE NOTE that there
has been one important addition to the list of recommendations on the following
pages. One comment received during the first period noted that the survey
lacked information on a previously endorsed data update regarding the
equivalence factors. Global Footprint Network apologizes for this error, as
this data update was inadvertently omitted from the original survey.
The Committee would
like to specifically invite comments on this recommended equivalence factor
update, which has been made available for comment separately on the very next
page of this survey. Please contact Global Footprint Network at data@footprintnetwork.org if you
have any concerns regarding the posting of this data update for only a single
comment period.