Finland used up its share of Earth's natural resources for the year on Friday, according to the country's branch of the WWF, the World Wide Fund For Nature.
Earth Overshoot Day arrives when people have consumed more from nature than the planet can renew.
People in Finland had consumed their share of the Earth's natural resources just three months into the year by Friday, 31 March.
"According to the latest calculations, Finns are the 16th-fastest consumers of their share of earth's natural resources in the world," WWF Finland's conservation advisor Jussi Nikula said in a press release.
The group said that if the rest of the world consumed resources like people in Finland, it would take about four Earths to produce the necessary natural resources.
"We need strict and firm policies from the next government so that we can get [Finland's] consumption to a sustainable level," Nikula said.
Energy, transport and food
Finland reached its overshoot day in 2019 on 5 April, but at the time it was noted that Overshoot Day had fallen later, in August, in recent years of the past.
WWF Finland noted that the biggest reasons for overconsumption are energy production, transport and food production.
Transportation, energy and food production are the main contributing factors to Finland's use of natural resources, according to the WWF.
In a tweet posted on Friday, WWF Finland's CEO, Liisa Rohweder, called on Finnish leaders to take up the issue of overconsumption as they hammer out governmental programmes.
According to the WWF, overconsumption is the root cause of global crises, climate change and loss of nature. Therefore, the solutions for ending overconsumption, curbing the climate crisis and stopping nature loss are partly the same, the group said.