The overexploitation of natural resources is threatening Tunisia’s environmental balance, according to the latest estimates released on Monday in Tunis.
Tunisia is set to reach its National Ecological Overshoot Day on October 28, 2025, joining the global trend of depleting natural resources before the end of the calendar year.
The announcement was made during a specialized environmental broadcast, highlighting the widening gap between the country’s consumption patterns and the regenerative capacity of its ecosystems.
This critical threshold means that within just ten months, Tunisia will have exhausted all the renewable resources its ecosystems can produce in an entire year. From that date onward, the country will be living in ecological debt, with potential consequences for biodiversity, water security, agricultural output, and climate resilience.
Globally, 2025 has marked a worrying milestone: Earth Overshoot Day occurred as early as July 24, underscoring that humanity is currently consuming as though it had access to 1.75 planets. Key drivers of this unsustainable trajectory include energy overconsumption, deforestation, overfishing, soil degradation, and rising greenhouse gas emissions.
In Tunisia, the environmental toll is already apparent, prolonged droughts, agricultural land erosion, worsening water stress, biodiversity loss, and growing vulnerability to climate shocks.
The overshoot indicator has thus become a strategic marker of economic and social fragility.
Experts are calling for an urgent overhaul of development models, stressing the need to fully integrate ecological sustainability into public policy.
Available data shows that reducing the ecological footprint will require structural reforms in the energy, agriculture, urban planning, and water management sectors.
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