Tackling population growth is key to fighting climate change

With the worldwide inhabitants set to achieve 8 billion individuals subsequent week, Robin Maynard argues that funding in household planning, gender equality and training would have a profound optimistic impression on the planet

By Robin Maynard

AS THE world desperately appears to COP27 for options to the local weather disaster, on 15 November – within the very midst of the convention – the UN will symbolically mark the purpose when our world inhabitants reaches 8 billion individuals. The timing could also be a coincidence, however the two are undeniably related.

Earlier this 12 months, a key report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Local weather Change unequivocally acknowledged:“Globally, Gross Home Product (GDP) per capita and inhabitants progress remained the strongest drivers of CO₂ emissions from fossil gas combustion within the final decade.” Unsurprisingly, then, a significant research into local weather …