Using contraception to counter climate change

Providing contraception, like condoms, to help prevent unwanted pregnancies is also a way to help combat climate change. — AFP

Climate change concerns have largely ignored the importance of universal access to effective contraception, despite the impact of population growth on greenhouse gas emissions, argue experts in the journal BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health on Oct 15, 2019..

Given the urgency of the environmental crisis facing the world and the lack of political will, other non-coercive approaches to halt global warming are needed, say Dr John Bongaarts and Dr Regine Sitruk-Ware of the Population Council in New York, United States.