Demographics dynamics Part 1/8

Demographics dynamics
Part 1/8

4-5:30pm, 23 June, 2009

Any fair global climate deal is likely to be based on some version of the principle of contraction and convergence whereby international emissions are equalized at low levels per head of population. By 2050, when emissions should have been cut by 80%, world population will have increased by nearly 40%. To what extent could growing resource-hungry populations jeopardize emission reductions? Could per capita-related emission targets create incentives for mismanaging population growth? What would be the implications for womens and childrens health?

Ashok Khosla, President, IUCN

Roger Martin, Chair of Trustees, Optimum Population Trust

Aubrey Meyer, Director, Global Commons Institute

Moderated by Michael Keating, Africa Progress Panel

In kind partnership with the Optimum Population Trust

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• kofi annan
• climate change
• geneva
• Michael Keating
• Aubrey Meyer
• Roger Martin
• Ashok Khosla
• global humanitarian forum
• demographics