{"id":3024,"date":"2019-09-03T15:23:23","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T14:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/news\/2019\/09\/the-most-powerful-action-to-save-the-planet-is-the-most-neglected-one\/"},"modified":"2024-05-08T12:56:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T11:56:53","slug":"the-most-powerful-action-to-save-the-planet-is-the-most-neglected-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/news\/2019\/09\/the-most-powerful-action-to-save-the-planet-is-the-most-neglected-one\/","title":{"rendered":"The most powerful action to save the planet is the most neglected one"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull is-light curved-bottom\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-0 has-background-dim\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/African-school-girl-banner-2.jpg\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-post-image\" alt=\"African school girl banner\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/African-school-girl-banner-2.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/African-school-girl-banner-2-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/African-school-girl-banner-2-1024x384.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/African-school-girl-banner-2-768x288.jpg 768w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/African-school-girl-banner-2-1536x576.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\"><h1 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-title\">The most powerful action to save the planet is the most neglected one<\/h1><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2019-09-03T15:23:23+01:00\">3 September 2019<\/time><\/div>\n<p class=\"lead\">In our latest blog post, our Digital and Communications Officer, Olivia Nater, writes that as well as being just and morally essential, achieving global gender equality would make an unparalleled contribution to improving lives, reducing emissions and halting the destruction of nature. However,&nbsp;it remains a chronically underfunded and overlooked solution. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>Empowered women who have full control over their own bodies and lives have fewer children and make key contributions to environmental sustainability. Project Drawdown, a major international study that ranks climate actions according to their effectiveness, found that the combination of educating girls and providing access to family planning could reduce atmospheric CO2 levels by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drawdown.org\/solutions\/women-and-girls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">103 gigatonnes<\/a>&nbsp;by 2050 \u2013 that\u2019s more than the combined potential of onshore and offshore wind, making women\u2019s empowerment the most effective solution to climate change.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/TOTAL-ATMOSPHERIC-CO2-EQUIV-rect-no-logo-144-ppi.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/TOTAL-ATMOSPHERIC-CO2-EQUIV-rect-no-logo-144-ppi.png 1800w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/TOTAL-ATMOSPHERIC-CO2-EQUIV-rect-no-logo-144-ppi-300x213.png 300w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/TOTAL-ATMOSPHERIC-CO2-EQUIV-rect-no-logo-144-ppi-1024x728.png 1024w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/TOTAL-ATMOSPHERIC-CO2-EQUIV-rect-no-logo-144-ppi-768x546.png 768w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/TOTAL-ATMOSPHERIC-CO2-EQUIV-rect-no-logo-144-ppi-1536x1092.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Educating girls lays a foundation for vibrant lives for girls and women, their families, and their communities. It is also one of the most powerful levers available for avoiding emissions by curbing population growth.&#8221;<\/p><p>&#8211;&nbsp;Paul Hawken, Founder, Project Drawdown<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>According to&nbsp;the <a href=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/news\/2019\/06\/13\/un-report-small-change-family-size-big-change-future-population\">UN&#8217;s latest population projections<\/a>, we are heading towards a population of more than 10 billion people by the end of the century. Based on their calculations, if every other&nbsp;family had just one fewer child than predicted, we would see our population peak by 2050 and then decline&nbsp;to 7.3 bn by 2100 \u2013 that&#8217;s fewer people&nbsp;than there are today.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Slow progress towards equality<\/h2>\n\n<p>There is an inverse correlation between the number of years a woman spends in education and the number of children she has in her lifetime. According to the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, African women with no education have, on average, 5.4 children; women who have completed secondary school have 2.7 and those who have a college education <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.worldbank.org\/health\/female-education-and-childbearing-closer-look-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have 2.2<\/a>. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/data.worldbank.org\/indicator\/SE.SEC.ENRR.FE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a quarter of all girls<\/a> do not attend secondary school and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unfpa.org\/child-marriage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one in every five girls<\/a> is married, or in union, before turning 18. In the least developed countries, that number increases to 40 per cent, with 12 per cent married before the age of 15. Child marriage is a violation of human rights and robs children of a bright future, yet it remains common practice in many parts of the world \u2013 to end child marriage by 2030, progress needs to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unfpa.org\/news\/we-are-working-against-all-odds-despite-progress-fgm-and-child-marriage-numbers-cause-alarm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at least 12 times faster<\/a> than it is now.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guttmacher.org\/fact-sheet\/adding-it-up-contraception-mnh-2017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More than 214 million women<\/a> of reproductive age in developing countries who wish to avoid pregnancy are currently unable to because they are not using modern birth control. At Cairo\u2019s International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994, world leaders adopted a ground-breaking agreement calling for women\u2019s reproductive health and rights to take centre stage in development efforts, but since then, the proportion of women married or in union who use modern contraceptives has increased <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unfpa.org\/sites\/default\/files\/pub-pdf\/UNFPA_PUB_2019_EN_State_of_World_Population.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">by only 6% to 58% today<\/a>. Still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guttmacher.org\/news-release\/2018\/unintended-pregnancy-rates-declined-globally-1990-2014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">almost half of all pregnancies<\/a> are unintended and more than&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/maternal-mortality\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">800&nbsp;women die <em>every day<\/em><\/a> from causes related to pregnancy or childbirth.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1885\" height=\"1060\" src=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/bigstock-Turmi-Ethiopia-September-231450367_resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/bigstock-Turmi-Ethiopia-September-231450367_resized.jpg 1885w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/bigstock-Turmi-Ethiopia-September-231450367_resized-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/bigstock-Turmi-Ethiopia-September-231450367_resized-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/bigstock-Turmi-Ethiopia-September-231450367_resized-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/bigstock-Turmi-Ethiopia-September-231450367_resized-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1885px) 100vw, 1885px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p>Sexual and reproductive health and rights are a key component of women\u2019s empowerment, however, as outlined in the UNFPA\u2019s latest <a href=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/news\/2019\/04\/18\/state-world-population-women-and-girls-left-behind\">State of the World Population report<\/a>, they <strong><em>&#8220;cannot be fully realized in the absence of greater gender equality.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;Cultural and religious attitudes that promote sexist norms and behaviours remain a major barrier to improving the uptake of modern family planning. Not a single country has yet achieved full gender equality and women continue to be disadvantaged in many other areas, including safety from violence and harassment, employment opportunities and compensation, and access to health care and leadership positions.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The funding gap<\/h2>\n\n<p>Thanks to a growing feminist movement, gender inequality has been gaining increasing attention and over the past two years, governments and international institutions have announced more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2019\/jul\/02\/gender-equality-support-1bn-boost-how-to-spend-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$1 billion (\u00a30.8 bn)<\/a> in new commitments to support gender equality globally. This is a welcome development but it pales in comparison to investment in other areas. Last year alone, foreign development aid from OECD countries <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oecd.org\/newsroom\/development-aid-drops-in-2018-especially-to-neediest-countries.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">totalled $153 bn<\/a> and the world invested <a href=\"https:\/\/about.bnef.com\/blog\/clean-energy-investment-exceeded-300-billion-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$332.1 bn in renewable energy<\/a> (let\u2019s not talk about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sipri.org\/media\/press-release\/2019\/world-military-expenditure-grows-18-trillion-2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">global military expenditure<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n<p>Global family planning received a major blow in 2017 in the form of US President Trump\u2019s reinstatement and expansion of the Global Gag Rule. A <a href=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/news\/2019\/06\/07\/trumps-global-gag-rule-killing-people\">2019 report<\/a> by the International Women\u2019s Health Coalition (IWHC)&nbsp;states that two years on, the rule implicates almost $9 bn in US foreign assistance. In a time when investment in family planning and women\u2019s rights should be higher than ever before, women around the world are suffering the brunt of regressive populist policies seeking to limit their bodily autonomy, freedoms and reproductive rights.<\/p>\n\n<p>Gender equality is also one of the UN\u2019s 17 <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainabledevelopment.un.org\/sdgs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sustainable Development Goals<\/a>, but we are clearly way off track to achieving it by 2030. This goal is unique in that meeting it is key to attaining most of the other goals, so it just doesn\u2019t make sense for it to be one of the most underfunded ones. For example, removing barriers to women&#8217;s participation in education and the workforce decreases poverty and boosts economic growth. Empowered women have smaller families, reducing the strain on global water supplies, curbing climate emissions and protecting biodiversity.<\/p>\n\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/news\/2019\/04\/05\/population-growth-slows-progress-towards-sustainable-development-goals-says-un\">stated by UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador Ashley Judd<\/a>,<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;If we invest in girls and women, the world and all of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals will advance forward rapidly as a result.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>So, what are we waiting for? World leaders, development institutions and environmental organisations must join together in calling for the empowerment of women and girls as a priority path towards a happier, more sustainable world.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-popmat-share\"><a class=\"fb-share\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fpopulationmatters.org%2Fnews%2F2019%2F09%2Fthe-most-powerful-action-to-save-the-planet-is-the-most-neglected-one%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><div>\n  \nShare<\/div><\/a><a class=\"tw-share\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpopulationmatters.org%2Fnews%2F2019%2F09%2Fthe-most-powerful-action-to-save-the-planet-is-the-most-neglected-one%2F&amp;text=The+most+powerful+action+to+save+the+planet+is+the+most+neglected+one\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><div>\n  \nTweet<\/div><\/a><a class=\"li-share\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpopulationmatters.org%2Fnews%2F2019%2F09%2Fthe-most-powerful-action-to-save-the-planet-is-the-most-neglected-one%2F&amp;text=The+most+powerful+action+to+save+the+planet+is+the+most+neglected+one\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><div>\n  \nPost<\/div><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-light-blue-background-color has-background alignfull is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Related content<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-popmat-grid grid grid-3\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-popmat-post-teaser\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/what-we-do\/\">\n\t\t\t\t<h3>What we do<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SDGs-banner-768x288.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-2357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SDGs-banner-768x288.jpg 768w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SDGs-banner-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SDGs-banner-1024x384.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SDGs-banner-1536x576.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SDGs-banner.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/img>\n\t\t\t\t<p>Population Matters vision is a world in which humanity lives fairly and sustainably with nature and each other.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-popmat-post-teaser\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/womens-rights\/\">\n\t\t\t\t<h3>women&#8217;s rights<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"513\" src=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bigstock-closeup-of-a-young-caucasian-w-228079150-768x513.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-2191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bigstock-closeup-of-a-young-caucasian-w-228079150-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bigstock-closeup-of-a-young-caucasian-w-228079150-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bigstock-closeup-of-a-young-caucasian-w-228079150-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bigstock-closeup-of-a-young-caucasian-w-228079150-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/populationmatters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/bigstock-closeup-of-a-young-caucasian-w-228079150.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/img>\n\t\t\t\t<p>The UN has projected that gender equality won&#8217;t be achieved until the next century. 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