Well, I think we should be grateful for the fact that the conversaion has begun, but is this new?
According to the newly released State of World Population 2009 report from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), a slowing of population growth could help ease the impacts of climate change.
Free contraception and family planning services are emphasized as necessary in the report, specifically in some of the world's least developed countries. The report reads: "Women with access to reproductive health services...have lower fertility rates that contribute to slower growth in greenhouse gas emissions."
UNFPA estimates that world population will increase from 6.7 billion people in 2009, to 9.2 billion people by 2050. The majority of this growth is predicted to occur in developing countries where condoms are not utilized to the extent they could be, and where many women remain in the dark about family planning and their own sexual rights.
UNFPA's Richard Kollodge, editor of the report, told MediaGlobal that the recent headlines concerning "fighting climate change with condoms" have "nothing to do with what's in the report. Our report is about empowering women and offers no simplistic solutions to a problem as complex as climate change."
The focus of the report is on increased access to contraception and family planning services, specifically in developing countries, something UNFPA has advocated for years.
"About 175 countries agreed in 1994 at the International Conference on Population and Development that 'all countries should take steps to meet the family planning needs of their populations as soon as possible and should, in all cases by the year 2015, seek to provide universal access to a full range of safe and reliable family-planning methods,'" Kollodge noted. "UNFPA supports this objective, partly by funding contraceptives."
Last year alone, according to Kollodge, "UNFPA spent about US$89 million on all forms of contraceptives, such as the pill, injectables, female condoms, and male condoms. Increasing access to voluntary family planning is an important part of UNFPA's ongoing work in 158 countries."
While international donor funding for such services has fallen "from US$723 million in 1995 to US$338 million in 2007," Kollodge reported that "there are an estimated 200 million women worldwide who would use family planning services if such services were available to them. The unmet demand for family planning therefore remains high."
This being the case, "The State of World Population 2009 calls on donors to fully fund family planning services and contraceptive supplies within the framework of reproductive health and rights," Kollodge said. "The decision to practice family planning must be completely voluntary and not according to the wishes of a service provider. Family planning services should be client-centered."
The report describes links between population and climate as "intricate" due to the "many, many factors that must be taken into consideration in any aspect of climate change," Kollodge explained. "For example, the rapid accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is not only about the number of people on the planet. It is about what we consume, the types of energy we produce and use, whether we live in a city or on a farm, whether we live in a rich country or poor country, whether we are young or old, what we eat, and even the extent to which women and men enjoy equal rights and opportunities."
The influence climate change is having and may have on people, according to Kollodge and UNFPA, is also "complex, spurring migration, destroying livelihoods, disrupting economies, undermining development, and exacerbating inequities between the sexes."
Though the report concedes that people contribute to climate change, Kollodge reminded, "the report also says that not all people or countries are created equal when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions. So far, the industrialized countries have generated the lion's share of greenhouse gases, but have been relatively immune to climate change. The industrialized countries created most of the problem, but the world's poor are already facing the biggest problems adapting to it."
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was at the centre of a new storm last night over claims he had unprotected sex with porn stars and a string of party girls.
Health campaigners blasted the randy golf ace for putting his wife Elin at risk of HIV and other sexually-transmitted diseases.
Several of his alleged lovers - including GBP 5-an-hour cocktail waitress Mindy Lawton - claim he never wore condoms.
hould be grateful that the conversation has begun, but is this really NEW?
According to the newly released State of World Population 2009 report from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), a slowing of population growth could help ease the impacts of climate change.
Free contraception and family planning services are emphasized as necessary in the report, specifically in some of the world's least developed countries. The report reads: "Women with access to reproductive health services...have lower fertility rates that contribute to slower growth in greenhouse gas emissions."
UNFPA estimates that world population will increase from 6.7 billion people in 2009, to 9.2 billion people by 2050. The majority of this growth is predicted to occur in developing countries where condoms are not utilized to the extent they could be, and where many women remain in the dark about family planning and their own sexual rights.
UNFPA's Richard Kollodge, editor of the report, told MediaGlobal that the recent headlines concerning "fighting climate change with condoms" have "nothing to do with what's in the report. Our report is about empowering women and offers no simplistic solutions to a problem as complex as climate change."
The focus of the report is on increased access to contraception and family planning services, specifically in developing countries, something UNFPA has advocated for years.
"About 175 countries agreed in 1994 at the International Conference on Population and Development that 'all countries should take steps to meet the family planning needs of their populations as soon as possible and should, in all cases by the year 2015, seek to provide universal access to a full range of safe and reliable family-planning methods,'" Kollodge noted. "UNFPA supports this objective, partly by funding contraceptives."
Last year alone, according to Kollodge, "UNFPA spent about US$89 million on all forms of contraceptives, such as the pill, injectables, female condoms, and male condoms. Increasing access to voluntary family planning is an important part of UNFPA's ongoing work in 158 countries."
While international donor funding for such services has fallen "from US$723 million in 1995 to US$338 million in 2007," Kollodge reported that "there are an estimated 200 million women worldwide who would use family planning services if such services were available to them. The unmet demand for family planning therefore remains high."
This being the case, "The State of World Population 2009 calls on donors to fully fund family planning services and contraceptive supplies within the framework of reproductive health and rights," Kollodge said. "The decision to practice family planning must be completely voluntary and not according to the wishes of a service provider. Family planning services should be client-centered."
The report describes links between population and climate as "intricate" due to the "many, many factors that must be taken into consideration in any aspect of climate change," Kollodge explained. "For example, the rapid accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is not only about the number of people on the planet. It is about what we consume, the types of energy we produce and use, whether we live in a city or on a farm, whether we live in a rich country or poor country, whether we are young or old, what we eat, and even the extent to which women and men enjoy equal rights and opportunities."
The influence climate change is having and may have on people, according to Kollodge and UNFPA, is also "complex, spurring migration, destroying livelihoods, disrupting economies, undermining development, and exacerbating inequities between the sexes."
Though the report concedes that people contribute to climate change, Kollodge reminded, "the report also says that not all people or countries are created equal when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions. So far, the industrialized countries have generated the lion's share of greenhouse gases, but have been relatively immune to climate change. The industrialized countries created most of the problem, but the world's poor are already facing the biggest problems adapting to it."
WIFE AIDS FEAR;
No condoms as he bedded porn stars
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SHAMED Tiger Woods
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was at the centre of a new storm last night over claims he had unprotected sex with porn stars and a string of party girls.
Health campaigners blasted the randy golf ace for putting his wife Elin at risk of HIV and other sexually-transmitted diseases.
Several of his alleged lovers - including GBP 5-an-hour cocktail waitress Mindy Lawton - claim he never wore condoms.
hould be grateful that the conversation has begun, but is this really NEW?
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