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Organisations are increasingly adopting population policies:

Anglican Church of Australia – motion on population

Australian Democrats – sustainable population policy

CIWEM – policy position statement

Countdown 2015 – fact sheet on SRH and environmental sustainability

DSW – interfaith declaration to improve family health and well-being

Green Party – policy pointers on population

Green Party – population policy for a sustainable society

Green Party – animal rights policy (AR402 – To take pressure off wild animals by voluntarily limiting our population, by actively discouraging and penalising pollution and by preserving and restoring stable habitats.)

Horn of Africa – joint position statement from civil society organisations on population growth and climate change

IAP – statement on population and consumption

IPPF – policy on climate change and SRHR

Liberal Democrats – population policies

Nature Conservation Council of NSW – population policies

Save the Children – policy on population

Sierra Club – Global Population and the Environment Program

Stable Population Party of Australia – population policies

WWF – policy on population

The UK government recently pledged to provide approximately £180 million per year in overseas aid for family planning. This is about 1.7 per cent of the government’s total foreign aid budget.

Read about religion and population.