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UN report says birth control can combat climate change
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 18 - 11 - 2009


Women must be empowered to combat climate change
through better availability of contraception to slowdown population
growth, dpa quoted the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) as saying in a report today.
The 94-page State of the World Population Report 2009, launched in
London, urged world leaders to take into account improved access to
family planning services in future discussions such as next month"s
UN climate change summit in Copenhagen.
"There is still time ... to think creatively about population,
reproductive health and gender equality and how these might
contribute to a just and environmentally sustainable world," said the
report.
UNFPA executive director Thoraya Ahmed Obaid said at the launch
that future international agreements on climate change should take
into account individuals" power to reverse global warming.
"Any treaty emerging from the December conference in Copenhagen
that helps people adapt to climate change and that harnesses women"s
and men"s power to reverse the warming of the earth"s atmosphere
would launch a genuinely effective long-term global strategy to deal
with climate change," she said.
Climate change negotiators meeting in Copenhagen would be setting
a course that would move governments "either forward or merely
sideways" on the key issue of how to manage an individual"s influence
on climate change.
A Copenhagen agreement that would help people to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions by "harnessing the insight and creativity of women and
men" would launch a genuinely effective long-term global strategy to
deal with climate change, said Obaid, who is from Saudi Arabia.
"This report shows that women have the power to mobilize against
climate change, but this potential can be realized only through
policies that empower them," she added.
Climate change was more than an issue of energy efficiency or
carbon emissions. "It is also an issue of population dynamics,
poverty and gender equity," she said.
Therefore, it future discussions should go beyond financial and
technical aspects to "include the human dimensions, including gender,
suffuse every facet of the problem." While climate change would
affect women, men, boys and girls differently around the world,
"individual behaviour can undermine and contribute to the global
effort to cool our warming world," Obaid said.


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