News from Population Matters.
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Pronatalists in Hungary, population talk in India, failure in New York
September has been a busy month on the population front, and for the PM team. Head of Campaigns Alistair Currie rounds up the news.
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Teen pregnancy plateaued, abortion through the roof: UK sexual health in 2023
Rebecca Foljambe is an NHS GP with an extra qualification in family planning, and founder of the charity You Before Two that promotes and delivers accredited Relationships and Sex Education…
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Having one child: are only children lonely children?
Although family sizes are shrinking across the world, having just one child is still often not a popular choice. Our Head of Campaigns, Alistair Currie, who is also a father-of-one, looks at reality and myth.
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David Attenborough’s greatest achievement
Population Matters Patron Sir David Attenborough turns an impressive 97 years old on 8 May. The beloved broadcaster has much to be proud of and it is probably no exaggeration…
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The real cost of an iPhone
Population Matters’ new report examines how consumption is killing our planet, and how Apple, and all of us, can help to save it.
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Can we meet our water needs?
Population Matters will be taking part in the UN Water Conference in New York this week, to riase the critical linkahge between water and population.
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Conspiracy chaos: coronavirus, Bill Gates, the UN and population
Over recent years, a growing proportion of Population Matters’ website traffic has been driven by rather odd search terms including “Bill Gates depopulation”, “Agenda 2030 population control”, and “depopulation coronavirus…
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Can the new global biodiversity deal do the job?
One million species are at risk of extinction. A new international deal, the Global Framework on Biodiversity, seeks to end that crisis. We look at what the framework contains and what it doesn’t, and ask: will it work?
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Earth Overshoot Day – what can we all do?
Earth Overshoot Day tells us that we are not just exhausting the resources of the planet on which we depend, but are accelerating the pace. Campaigner Maureen Medina looks at…
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THE CLIMATE CRISIS: ETHICAL POPULATION ACTION A KEY SOLUTION
In late June, Project Drawdown, the world-leading study of climate change solutions, published updated information on a range of solutions to reduce carbon emissions globally. Family planning and education, resulting…