Population Matters blog archive
2012
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December 20th 2012
Life expectancy rises around the world
A sharp decline in deaths from malnutrition and infectious diseases like measles and tuberculosis has caused a shift in global mortality patterns over the past 20 years, according to a... -
November 18th 2012
‘Peak oil idea has gone up in flames’
The International Energy Agency's report reminds us peak oil idea has gone up in flames, and that the truly global implications of the 2012 report lie in the warning that we... -
November 17th 2012
Pakistan must invest to slow population growth
A third of Pakistanis have no access to birth control, a senior UN official said on Wednesday, as he urged the country to allocate more resources to family planning to... -
November 17th 2012
UK: Burning trees ‘dirtier than coal’
Power stations around the UK are being encouraged to burn wood as part of plans to cut carbon emissions. The Government claims that burning 'biomass' is carbon neutral and offers... -
November 16th 2012
The Great Africa Land Grab: Comment
Phil Bloomer, Director of Campaigns and Policy at Oxfam GB, writes in The Ecologist. Land grabbing has fast become a major threat to poor communities in Africa, Asia and South America. Poverty-stricken... -
November 16th 2012
EU freezes airline carbon emissions law
The European Union will freeze for a year its rule that all airlines must pay for their carbon emissions for flights into and out of EU airports, the EU executive said,... -
November 15th 2012
Family planning “development priority”
Access to family planning is a human right and a sound economic investment at a time when the number of young people in developing countries has reached an all-time high,... -
November 15th 2012
Kyoto: Australia signs up to second phase
Negotiations towards a new global treaty on climate change took a small step forward on Friday [9 November] as the Australian government announced it would join up to a continuation... -
November 15th 2012
China: Balanced population growth signalled
A keynote report to the ongoing 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has signaled changes in the country's population policy amid an aging society, according to... -
November 14th 2012
World 2011 CO2 emissions up 2.5 percent
Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2011 rose 2.5 percent to 34 billion metric tons (37.48 billion tons), a new record, Germany's renewable energy institute said on Tuesday [13 November]....
