PSN and the Population and Climate Change Alliance
20 December 2009
Source: PSN
PSN is now part of a coalition, the Population and Climate Change Alliance (PCCA), which played an active role advocating for integrated approaches to population issues and climate changes at the recent International Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen earlier this month.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) and UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown address correspondents at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference.
Credit: UN Photo/Mark Garten
The Population and Climate Change Alliance (PCCA)
The PCCA was born out of a meeting in Geneva in June 2009, and members include PAI, UNFPA, MSI, IPPF, Sex og Samfund (Danish IPPF member association),and the Inter-European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development.
Making the links and advancing rights
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".
PCCA at Copenhagen
PSN and the PCCA had a strong presence at Copenhagen, facilitating meetings with parliamentarians for both the South and North, and with youth leaders from environmental NGOs. Further information is available here.
Read further information about PSN's work with the PCCA in Progammes.