Royal Society launches People and Planet Study
The Royal Society has published its long-awaited study on human population and consumption. Rapid and widespread demographic changes coupled with unprecedented levels of consumption present profound challenges to human health and wellbeing and the natural environment, the study finds.
PSN welcomes the report which reiterates that both population and consumption issues are important and calls for unequal consumption patterns to be rebalanced, alongside a stabilisation of the world’s population, through investment in health, education and voluntary family planning.
PSN: Rio+20 must re-prioritise family planning
In a video interview with the Woodrow Wilson Centre, PSN’s Karen Newman has spoken about her hopes for the forthcoming Rio+20 conference which marks the 20 year anniversary of the UN Earth Summit.
Youth group: Rio+20 must address reproductive rights
A petition from the organisation Advocates for Youth is calling on leaders at Rio+20 to make young people's sexual health and reproductive rights a priority at the forthcoming UN sustainable development summit.
The demographic dividend: new briefing from PPD ARO
A new policy briefing is available from PSN member Partners in Population Development Africa Regional Office (PPD ARO) setting out policy recommendations to promote a demographic dividend and development in Africa.
Focus for May
Climate change and resulting environmental disasters are expected to significantly increase migration both within countries and across borders over the next century, according to a new report.