Tackling population growth is key to fighting climate change

With the worldwide inhabitants set to achieve 8 billion individuals subsequent week, Robin Maynard argues that funding in household planning, gender equality and schooling would have a profound constructive influence on the planet

By Robin Maynard

AS THE world desperately appears to COP27 for options to the local weather disaster, on 15 November – within the very midst of the convention – the UN will symbolically mark the purpose when our world inhabitants reaches 8 billion individuals. The timing could also be a coincidence, however the two are undeniably linked.

Earlier this yr, a key report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change unequivocally said:“Globally, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita and population growth remained the strongest drivers of CO₂ emissions from fossil fuel combustion in the last decade.” Unsurprisingly, then, a significant examine into local weather …