Thanks to Eric Rimmer for this article published in The National.
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For three days last week 60 international experts met in Abu Dhabi to discuss tactics in the war against global warming. The forum held at the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research looked at the issues at the centre of negotiations to replace the Kyoto Protocol and, most importantly, how the estimated US$100 billion needed to limit the increase in global mean temperatures to 2°C would be met.

The conference, organised by the NYU School of Law, is symptomatic of just how seriously climate change and the devastating effects it threatens are being taken.

For full article, visit:
http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090509/WEEKENDER/705089799/1311

Read Emergent Media Center’s (EMC) response to Nicholas Kristof’s recent blog post, ‘NYT Magazine Issue on Women.’

http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/30

PMC is working with EMC and UNFPA to create an electronic game for adolescent boys aimed at preventing violence against women. For more information on this project, visit http://www.populationmedia.org/where/worldwide/

Read PMC’s response to Andrew Revkin’s recent blog post, ’90 Billion People, 1 Planet?’

http://community.nytimes.com/comments/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/13/90-billion-people-no-problem

XXVI IUSSP International Population Conference
Marrakech, Morocco
September 27 – October 2 2009
http://iussp2009.princeton.edu/default.aspx
This will be the first IUSSP International Population Conference to be held on the African continent and in an Arab country. The Conference will include over 180 regular scientific sessions, poster sessions, and training sessions, as well as plenary and debate sessions, side meetings and exhibitions. Simultaneous translation in French and English will be provided for all plenary, debate, regular and training sessions. In addition, simultaneous translation in Arabic will be provided for all plenary and debate sessions and all sessions organised by the Moroccan NOC on population issues in the Arab world.

Engel Entertainment is proud to announce the DVD release of its award-winning feature documentary, A Walk to Beautiful. This film tells a universal story of hope, courage, and transformation through the journeys of five Ethiopian women suffering from childbirth injuries who reclaim their lives.

Chosen to appear in over 25 festivals worldwide, A Walk to Beautiful has won international praise, including the Best Feature Documentary Award from the International Documentary Association and the Excellence in Media Award from the Global Health Council. In 2008, A Walk to Beautiful was released in theaters and an edited, one-hour television version of the film premiered on PBS’s NOVA, the most watched documentary series on public television.
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Thanks to Paul Ehrlich for the this paper, published in the Electronic Journal of Sustainable Development. It is a fascinating look back at the Population Bomb. See http://www.ejsd.org/docs/The_Population_Bomb_Revisited.pdf.

Population Bomb Revisited Paul Ehrlich 2009 (PDF, 238 KB)

Thanks to Raymond Ready for alerting me to last year’s interview of Paul Ehrlich by Living on Earth. The title of the interview was, “Is Chicken Little Right?” You can listen to the interview at http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.htm?program

Another Ehrlich classic was his interview with Diane Rehm. Listen to it on NPR at http://wamu.org/programs/dr/08/07/24.php#20644

Contraception is a “best buy” for development. By helping individuals to choose when to have children, family planning saves lives; it prevents unintended pregnancies, averts maternal and child deaths, and prevents abortions. Family planning also saves public sector resources; for $1 a government spends on family planning service delivery, $2 to $6 can be saved in providing other interventions, including basic health and education for fewer children, maternal health services, and improvements in water and sanitation.

For full article, visit:
http://www.prb.org/Publications/PolicyBriefs/contraceptives.aspx

July 11, 2009 marks the 20th Anniversary of World Population Day. “Investing in Women,” this year’s theme, draws attention to the importance of improving the health and opportunity of women worldwide in order to create a more just and balanced world. By focusing on the plight of women around the world on World Population Day, we are able to understand this issue as both one of human rights and also as vital to global sustainability.

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n commemorating the 20th Anniversary of first World Population Day, the Population Institute today urged policymakers around the globe to recommit themselves to the expansion of family planning and reproductive health services.

William N. Ryerson, president of the Population Institute, said, “Much has been accomplished, but much remains to be done if we are to accomplish the Millennium Development Goal of giving all women access to reproductive health services. Many women who want to space or limit the number of their pregnancies, particularly in the least developed countries, today still face significant obstacles, including cultural barriers and lack of knowledge.”

For full article, visit:
http://www.examiner.com/x-16503-LA-County-Foreign-Policy-Examiner

The World Bank and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) warned on Tuesday that family planning and other reproductive health programs vital to poor women had fallen off the development radar of many low-income and donor country governments and international aid agencies.

These programs, they said in a statement released on the eve of the 20th anniversary of World Population Day, were vital to boost women’s economic and social well-being, especially during the current global economic crisis, and to reduce endemic poverty and high numbers of maternal and infant deaths.

For full article, visit:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-07/01/content_11629977.htm