In this blog post, our Director, Robin, summarises events at the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25 and recounts his powerful experiences of meeting vulnerable young women and their families in Kibera, Africa's largest slum, and surrounding rural communities.

With the critical COP25 climate change meeting opening in Madrid, our 7m-high Big Baby balloon brought a critical message to Westminster on Friday: cutting population growth through choosing smaller families is vital to fight climate change.

A new analysis by the UK Office for National Statistics shows that estimating the number of life years remaining, rather than counting the years lived, could be a better way of measuring population ageing and its implications for society.

This Mirror article highlights the problem of population pressure in the UK and abroad, as well as positive solutions, and features a quote from PM Director Robin.

November marked the publication of the Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency – a paper signed by more than 11,000 scientists from around the world warning of “untold human suffering” unless governments take urgent action to tackle the climate crisis, including ending and reversing population growth.

We were very pleased to see this Greenpeace International opinion piece by co-founder Rex Weyler, acknowledging the need to tackle both our unsustainable consumption and population growth.

In this blog post, our Campaigns and Projects Officer, Florence Blondel, reflects on her family life in Uganda and the positive changes she sees coming for women's agency and family size around the world.

This welcome article in Time magazine by former US president Jimmy Carter points out that achieving gender equality is one of the most powerful solutions to the climate crisis. Unfortunately, it omits the main reason: empowered women are able to choose smaller families.