PSN takes on the role of PCCA Secretariat
23 June 2010
Source: PSN
PSN has recently taken on the task of co-ordinating the Population and Climate Change Alliance (PCCA).
Workers in Myanmar carry firewood to their village under a very hot sun.
© 2005 Mar Lar, Courtesy of Photoshare
The Population and Climate Change Alliance (PCCA)
This important alliance was created in 2009 by a number of civil society organisations working on sexual and reproductive health and rights and on the linkages between population and climate change issues.
The initial members of this alliance were the Population and Sustainability Network, Marie Stopes International, Population Action International , European Parliamentary Forum, The Danish Family Planning Association (Sex & Samfund) and the International Planned Parenthood Federation.
PCCA at Copenhagen
The members agreed to develop joint advocacy efforts in order to influence the climate change agenda, and in particular the International Climate Change Conference that took place in Copenhagen in December 2009 (COP 15). The agreed goals for the alliance's joint advocacy work is to ensure the integration of a rights based approach and voluntary family planning in the adaptation programmes to climate change in countries which are most affected.
The PCCA held two successful VIP lunch events at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen; one for youth leaders, and one for parliamentarians.
Future activities
Since that time, the PCCA, which has now grown to encompass additional NGOs, including the Ethiopian Populatiion, Health and Environment Consortium, has been planning in order to identify additional opportunities for profiling the links between population dynamics and climate change.
Read more about the PCCA at the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit.