Women Can Make Or Break Climate Change, Says UN Report

[villager]

Source: Talk Radio News Service

Women Can Make Or Break Climate Change, Says UN Report

A report entitled: State of World Population 2009, was released today by the UN’s Population Fund (UNFPA). The report says boosting support to women can be the changing factor in tackling global warming. It underscores that better reproductive health care and improved relations between women and men can make or break the fight against climate change.

“The whole world has been talking about carbon credits, carbon trading and emissions targets. But not enough has been said about the people whose activities contribute to those emissions or about those who will be most affected by climate change, especially women” the report states.

UNFPA’s Danielle Schensul added, “We have to think beyond population growth and on how we organize families. A divorce causes more emissions than a birth of a child.”

The report also highlights that if women were given equal worldwide access to family planning, then population growth could be mitigated to prevent the burden of massive human numbers on earth. And if there are lower fertility rates across the globe, UNFPA believes this contributes to slower growth in greenhouse gas emissions “in the long run.”

Women are also more likely than men to be sustainable consumers.

By 2050, population in Africa is expected to increase by 1 billion while for Asia, growth is expected to be over 2 billion.

“People have different vulnerabilities and capacities–especially among the poor–and women are the largest population of poor in the world,” added Schensul.

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[polly7]

1. Right on.

I wonder just how different this world would be today if every nation had had at least one woman lead them and been given enough real power to implement policy.

Good for the U.N., it's about time.

[beyond cynical]

2. Wow...!

“We have to think beyond population growth and on how we organize families.”

Do we need the UN to instruct human beings how to do what we've been doing for 5000 years?

:crazy:

[villager]

3. What we've been doing for 5,000 years? You mean slowly destroying the planet?

Although of late, it ain't so slow...

[beyond cynical]

4. Still, not as fast as that which ended the Dinosaur era.

[villager]

5. huh? That took thousands of years

n/t

[The2ndWheel]

6. The UN is a human-made organization

which exists only because of the path we've been on for 5,000 years. I doubt it would do anything that would substantially, in any way, decrease its own power. Whatever power it has. Which isn't much.

[villager]

8. why does this OP lend itself to so many incoherent responses?

:shrug:

[Guilded Lilly]

7. Thoughtful approach

good balance always makes good sense when talking about saving our Mother Earth :)

When she goes, we all go, female or male.