consumption

As pressure to address climate change increases, long-simmering debates on the connections between population and environment have been renewed, debates that implicate women's rights. Kasey Rae Jacobs offers her perspective on her first 5 days in Copenhagen.

Americans represent 5 percent of the global population, consume 25 percent of the world’s energy, and generate 5 times the world’s average per-capita of CO2 emissions.

Two hundred million women worldwide want to avoid pregnancy but lack access to contraception. Recent research suggests that filling this gap is a humane and cost-effective human rights and environmental strategy.

World Population Day is worth your attention - if you care about the well-being of the world's women, or about the global environment.