News from Population Matters.
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Reflections on the UN Climate Change COP29 in BAKU
Dorcas Wakio, Population Matters partner and Choice Ambassador, reflects on UN Climate Change COP29 (COP29) in Baku, advocating for gender equity, climate finance, and marginalised voices. Her work highlights the…
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Beyond Growth – The Promise of a Wellbeing Economy
In this guest blog, econometrician and sustainability researcher Gaya Herrington considers whether a transition to a Wellbeing Economy is possible and what that would mean for our society and how…
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Why do societies not respond to climate change as they should?
Despite awareness of the impending crisis, humanity’s emissions continue to climb, pushing the planet toward catastrophic warming. In today’s guest blog, climate change economist and writer Graeme Maxton considers the greatest problem of our age.
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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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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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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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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.
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Green Growth: Sustainable Future or Myth? – Part Two
We continue our series exploring alternative economic models. Here, in the second of three parts, we examine green growth, which seeks to achieve continued economic growth that is more environmentally sustainable.
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Green Growth: Sustainable Future or Myth? – Part One
Green Growth asserts that continued economic growth can be compatible with staying in the ecological limits of our planet, with measures to decouple GDP growth from environmental impacts. It’s become popular amongst policymakers, but climate scientists are sceptical that green growth can ever truly be green.
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Agrowth: The Agnostic Approach – Part Two
Unlike traditional growth models, agrowth emphasises that growth is neither inherently good nor bad. Its value depends on societal and environmental contexts. Read part two of our look at this lesser known model.