[Scpg] "Contraception cheapest way to combat climate change"

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Thanks to George Vye for passing this along to us.
 
_http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/6161742/Contrace
ption-cheapest-way-to-combat-climate-change.html_ 
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/6161742/Contraception-cheapest-way-to-comb
at-climate-change.html)  


'Contraception cheapest way to  combat climate change'
 
Contraception is almost five times cheaper as a means of  preventing 
climate change than conventional green technologies, according to  research by the 
London School of Economics.

 
By Richard Pindar
Published: 12:05PM BST 09 Sep  2009




UN data suggests that meeting unmet need for family planning would  reduce 
unintended births by 72 per cent 



Every  £4 spent on family planning over the next four decades would reduce 
global CO2  emissions by more than a ton, whereas a minimum of £19 would 
have to be spent on  low-carbon technologies to achieve the same result, the 
research says.
The  report, Fewer Emitter, Lower Emissions, Less Cost, concludes that  
family planning should be seen as one of the primary methods of emissions  
reduction. The UN estimates that 40 per cent of all pregnancies worldwide are  
unintended.
 

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If  these basic family planning needs were met, 34 gigatons (billion 
tonnes) of CO2  would be saved – equivalent to nearly 6 times the annual emissions 
of the US and  almost 60 times the UK’s annual total.
Roger  Martin, chairman of the Optimum Population Trust at the LSE, said: “
It’s always  been obviously that total emissions depend on the number of 
emitters as well as  their individual emissions – the carbon tonnage can’t 
shoot down as we want,  while the population keeps shooting up.”
UN  data suggests that meeting unmet need for family planning would reduce  
unintended births by 72 per cent, reducing projected world population in 
2050 by  half a billion to 8.64 million.
The  research is published on the day that the Government’s climate change 
advisers,  the Climate Change Committee, warned households and industry that 
a planned 80  per cent reduction in emissions are likely to prove  
insufficient.

 
 
 
 

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