Communications

Climate Change Symposium

PSN co-hosted the first Symposium of its kind to address the links between population dynamics, sexual and reproductive health and rights and climate change, in London on March 1st.

PSN on Radio Four Women's Hour 5 February 2010

PSN's Karen Newman was invited onto Radio Four Women's Hour on 5 February, together with Fred Pearce, to discuss his new book, Peoplequake: Mass Migration, Ageing Nations and the Coming Population Crash, recently featured in the Guardian.

PSN at Copenhagen Climate Change Summit

PSN is now part of a coalition, the Population and Climate Change Alliance (PCCA), which was born out of a meeting in Geneva in June 2009, and includes PAI, UNFPA, MSI, IPPF, Sex og Samfund (Danish IPPF member association),and the Inter-European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development.  The "point of departure for the PCCA is that the climate change agenda is one of the most decisive one for all future international cooperation - and the linkages with the population-theme are obvious and controversial at the same time. If the progressive SRHR movement doesn't get the arguments around population policies right - others will take over the agenda". 

PSN on BBC radio debate 30 November

PSN's Karen Newman and John Guillebaud from OPT are among the panel members in The Frontiers of Science, aired on 30 November on BBC Radio Four.

 

PSN present to RSFU event in Stockholm

PSN's Karen Newman gave a presentation at the EDD: Strategy of Silence in October.

Training of Staff

A clip of the seminar is available at http://blip.tv/play/hMtzganLDgA

 

The Manchester International Festival

Manchester International Festival and The Guardian invited scientists, engineers, campaigners and members of the public to submit their climate-saving ideas during May 2009.  The Population and Sustainability Network was among the 20 invited to present to the public and the panel and contribute to the Manchester Report in July 2009. PSN's recommendation for universal access to voluntary family planning subsequently was chosen as one of the top ten solutions to climate change. 

Address at Anglo-Ethiopia Society in London

Louise Carver, the Population and Sustainability Network communications officer delivered an address to a mixed group of UK and Ethiopian colleagues, including Ethiopia Embassy representatives at an event at the Royal Asiatic Society called: Population Growth in Ethiopia, Causes, Impacts and Wider Areas of influence. 

PSN Co-ordinator Delivers Ethical Position Paper

PSN Co-ordinator Karen Newman recently addressed the delegates at the EuroNGOs annual meeting in Lyon. The session held a moderated debate examining the the capacity to approach population growth issues and their interface with climate change, from a rights-based perspective. 

PSN Holds Workshop and Addresses Conference about Population Issues

PSN collaborated with international partners to debate the links between population growth/ Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) and the environment, at an event co-hosted by the EuroNGOs network and the European Parliamentary Forum (EPF) in Istanbul.

The Network was launched as a UN- registered Partnership

 
A MESSAGE FROM NEW YORK: RE-STATING THE POPULATION DEBATE

The Population and Sustainability launched its New York debut at a highly successful event in April 2004.