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Talk Radio News ServiceWomen Can Make Or Break Climate Change, Says UN Report
A report entitled: State of World Population 2009, was released today by the UN’s Population Fund (UNFPA). The report says boosting support to women can be the changing factor in tackling global warming. It underscores that better reproductive health care and improved relations between women and men can make or break the fight against climate change.
“The whole world has been talking about carbon credits, carbon trading and emissions targets. But not enough has been said about the people whose activities contribute to those emissions or about those who will be most affected by climate change, especially women” the report states.
UNFPA’s Danielle Schensul added, “We have to think beyond population growth and on how we organize families. A divorce causes more emissions than a birth of a child.”
The report also highlights that if women were given equal worldwide access to family planning, then population growth could be mitigated to prevent the burden of massive human numbers on earth. And if there are lower fertility rates across the globe, UNFPA believes this contributes to slower growth in greenhouse gas emissions “in the long run.”
Women are also more likely than men to be sustainable consumers.
By 2050, population in Africa is expected to increase by 1 billion while for Asia, growth is expected to be over 2 billion.
“People have different vulnerabilities and capacities–especially among the poor–and women are the largest population of poor in the world,” added Schensul.
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