News from Population Matters.
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Local Economy: Strengthening Communities with Sustainable Growth
The Local Economy focuses on fostering sustainable growth, creating job opportunities, and enhancing the quality of life within a specific community or region. This approach strengthens communities’ economies by supporting local businesses, promoting entrepreneurship, and fostering collaboration among stakeholders.
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Nature’s Decline Deepens: Insights from the Living Planet Report 2024
The Living Planet Report 2024 reveals that wildlife populations have dropped 73% on average since 1970. It warns that national governments are failing to meet biodiversity targets and calls for an urgent need to transform our current economic and food systems, but it only skirts around the issue of continued global population growth.
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Rethinking Prosperity: How the Care Economy Redefines Success
How can we reorient economies to prioritise people and the planet over profit? The Care Economy is one such reimagining, that values human wellbeing and sustainability above traditional profit-driven approaches, which undervalue and neglect care work.
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The Big Growth Lie: Herman Daly and his Vision for a Steady Future
When we think of economic growth, it’s often assumed that more is always better. But for Herman Daly, one of the founding voices in ecological economics, this growth mindset is fundamentally flawed.
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COP16: Amplifying Our Partner’s Voices
The United Nations Biodiversity Conference is taking place in Cali, Colombia this year, and we are excited to be sponsoring our long-time partners Women for Conservation to attend the event and promote family planning as an important aspect when it comes to protecting biodiversity.
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Right to Repair: A Path Towards Circular Economics
Today is International Repair Day, an annual event to celebrate those who help consumers repair their products, reducing their impact upon the planet. The right to repair movement is a crucial part of the transition to a circular economy.
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Debunking Myths: Population Distracts from Bigger Issues
As the world grapples with the increasing impacts of the climate crisis, a common argument we face is that focusing on population growth is a distraction from addressing the bigger issues. This myth, however, oversimplifies a complex reality.
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Feeding Billions, Failing Nature
Today is World Food Day, currently our unsustainable food systems are one of the main drivers of nature’s decline. Florence Blondel, our Content and Campaigns Specials reviews the impact of our food systems on the planet.
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Balancing Act: How the Steady-State Economy Seeks Equilibrium
If the steady-state economy were to be encapsulated in single word, it would be balance. It is a concept that seeks to establish an equilibrium between growth and environmental integrity, between production and population growth.
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Green Growth: Sustainable Future or Myth? – Part Three
Our third and final blog investigating the concept of green growth. We look at the physical limits of growth, where green growth fits into our current system and what might come next.