Aspen Global Health and Development

Resources

Resources for Climate Change and Family Planning

Background Materials
UNFPA - Adding it Up
UNFPA/PATH - Outlook
UNFPA - Facing a Changing World
World Health Organization - Climate Change and Family Planning
Guttmacher Institute - Unmet Need for Contraception in Developing Countries
Center for Global Development - The Economics of Population Policy
Resource Media - Who Said What

News
Thomas Lovejoy, The Guardian:
Stemming population growth is a cheap way to limit climate change
 
Kavita Ramdas and Bill McKibben, San Jose Mercury News
:
Welcome, 7 billionth baby -- but let's help moms plan families

Carl Pope and Carmen Barroso, Huffington Post:
People and the Planet: The World at 7 Billion

Nicholas Kristoff, The New York Times:
The Birth Control Solution

Pamelo Onduso and Scott Moreland, New Security Beat:
Day of 7 Billion Puts Future Generations in Spotlight

Mireya Navarro, The New York Times Green Blogs:
The Elephant in the Room

Lisa Hymas, Grist:
Climate Change is our biggest challenge, says Bill McKibben - but we need to keep working on population

Jotham Musinguzi:
Women's Health, Climate Health

Frances Beinecke:
http://theenergycollective.com/francesbeinecke/45179/new-studies-find-same-tools-empower-women-also-combat-climate-change

Sigourney Weaver:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sigourney-weaver/women-climate-change_b_870401.html

Scientific American:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=will-birth-control-solve-climate-ch-2010-10-11

Grist:
http://www.grist.org/article/2010-10-11-how-does-population-affect-climate-change

Kavita Ramdas:
http://www.ips.org/mdg3/womens-reproductive-freedom-ensures-our-survival-kavita-ramdas-explains-why/

Ellen Goodman:
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/12/11/the_human_factor_is_missing_in_copenhagen/

The Lancet:
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2809%2961643-3/fulltext 

Nature:
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/091118/full/news.2009.1096.html 

The Philipine Star:
http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=520461&publicationSubCategoryId=64

CNN:
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/11/18/climate.change.women/

Los Angeles Times:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2009/09/can-condoms-combat-climate-change.html

 

Additional Resources on Related Topics

Aspen Institute’s Global Health and Development Program
http://www.aspeninstitute.org/policy-work/global-health-development

UNFPA
www.unfpa.org

International Center for Research on Women
www.icrw.org

Oxfam’s Sisters in the Planet
http://www.oxfamamerica.org/campaigns/climate-change/sisters-on-the-planet

Population Justice Project
www.popjustice.org

Partners in Population and Development
http://www.partners-popdev.org
 
Population Action International
www.populationaction.org

Empty Handed
www.empty-handed.org

Stemming population growth is a cheap way to limit climate change