Aims of the Population and Sustainability Network

 

• To highlight the negative impact of rapid population increase on economic development, poverty alleviation and the natural environment, work to remove barriers that inhibit discussion and action on population matters and promote greater awareness of the importance of population planning among policy makers, media and the general public

• To promote the adequate provision of reproductive healthcare facilities and education for the 200 million couples who have said they do not want to have a child in the next two years, but are currently not using contraceptives, usually because of non-availability of family planning services
  
  
• To encourage better understanding of the problems caused by unsustainable consumption (particularly in the rich minority world) - especially as they relate to climate change, pressure on finite resources and biodiversity