As part of our campaign for a sustainable future, we provide briefings and submissions to government, political parties and other bodies.
Briefings
Population and the environment, September 2011
UK views on population, September 2011
Population — EE’s unmentionable underminer: a campaigner’s view, June 2011
Population growth and climate change, March 2011
Joint position statement from horn of Africa civil society organisations – population growth and climate change, September 2010
Population growth to 2110: Middle East, June 2010
Trend of actual donor support for contraceptives with estimated requirements, 1997 – 2015, December 2009.
Copenhagen climate summit OPT briefing note, November 2009.
Small families produce big green gains Two-page policy briefing, February 2009.
Population, Environment, Migration – The Key Issues One-page policy briefing, January 2009.
Is there a “right” to have children? Policy briefing, July 2008.
Is there a “right” to have children? Summary and extracts, July 2008.
The sustainability of human populations: How many people can live on Earth? Research briefing, February 2008.
A population-based climate strategy Research briefing, May 2007.
What kind of population policy should the UK have? Policy briefing, November 2006.
Desertification and migration Bullet briefing, November 2006.
Why the UK needs a population policy Policy briefing, July 2006.
Climate change and population – links and trade-offs Bullet briefing, July 2006.
Submissions to formal consultations
Population Growth: the Neglected ‘Green’ Issue – A Text for Rio+20, January 2012.
Submission to UN Commission for Population and Development, January 2012.
Submission to Planning and Biodiversity Consultation, APPG on Biodiversity, January 2012.
Submission to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, October 2011.
Evidence to Royal Society People and Planet Study, September 2010.
Stage 2 Submission to Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, March 2010.
Statement Climate Change, Human Rights and Population: a New NGO Strategy? Based on paper presented to UNFPA, February 16/17, 2010.
Response to Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, November 2009.
Statement on Climate Change, August 2009.
Submission Eco-Towns: Living a Greener Future? to the Department for Communities and Local Government consultation on eco-towns, June 2008.
Submission to Prevention of Illegal Working consultation, Home Office, July 2007.
Submission (Abstract) for the International Ecological Footprint Conference at the Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society (BRASS), Cardiff University, 8 – 10 May 2007. Putting population into the policies and practices.
Submission on the establishment of a Migration Advisory Committee, requested by the Home Office, December 2006.
Submission on the effects of population growth and mass migration on the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, requested by the Parliamentary Hearings held by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development and Reproductive Health, March 2006.
Response (7 November 2005) to Home Office consultation: Selective Admission: Making Migration Work for Britain.
Response to ODPM consultation paper Planning for Housing Provision, to Office of Deputy Prime Minister, 9 September 2005.
Submission to DEFRA Rural Futures Project: Scenario Building for Twenty Year and Fifty Year Futures, to Department of Food and Rural Affairs, 6 September 2004.
Submission to the Environmental Audit Committee, House of Commons The Sustainable Development Strategy: Illusion or Reality? May 2004.
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