News from Population Matters.
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Planet’s annual budget of resources used up in just 7 months
On 1 August 2024, we reach a critical milestone – Earth Overshoot Day. We interviewed two of the people responsible for calculating the date to find out more.
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Happy World Population Day… but you really don’t need to breed for Britain
Population Matters’ CEO Amy Jankiewicz has written a comment piece for the Independent, which we have mirrored below. The article challenges pronatalism in the context of continued worldwide population growth and highlights some of the devastating impacts on the planet and its wildlife species.
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The Road to 10 Billion: World Population Projections 2024
The United Nations has today released its updated population projections up to 2100. It predicts there’ll be another two billion people on the planet by 2061, peaking at 10.3 billion in the mid-2080s.
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Should population be part of the ocean conservation conversation?
Today is World Oceans Day, a youth-led movement looking to protect and celebrate the world’s oceans and improve our climate. In today’s guest post, oceans activist Daniel Caceres Bartra tells us why population should be part of the ocean conservation conversation.
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The lingering anxiety around the “p” word
On the 30th anniversary of the landmark adoption of the Programme of Action in Cairo, people gathered in New York last week to share their successes and challenges in tackling population issues over the past three decades. Our Content and Campaigns Specialist, Florence Blondel, was there.
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Building Population Matters’ momentum internationally
In this blog post, our Content and Campaigns Specialist, Florence Blondel, shows how we’ve already established ourselves as one of the leading voices in population and development through collaborative efforts.
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The World of Population Projections
The UN is generally considered the top dog of population projections but are there any viable alternatives?
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Gender equality by 2030? Not likely
The 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women ended last week with a call from UN leaders to accelerate poverty eradication and provide necessary funding.
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Global Resources Dwindling as Demand Rises
In the last 50 years resource use has tripled, just as the world’s population has grown from 3.6 billion people in 1970 to over 8 billion today.
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Thoughts on declining fertility and scientists’ warning
The Journal of Population and Sustainability explores all aspects of the relationship between human numbers and environmental issues.