Climate & Animals:
Making the connection
When communities invest in children and support fair, sustainable family growth, they create a future that protects both people and the planet—including animals.
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The facts are clear:
- The most effective way to address many of the impacts on our environment and other species, like climate change, is by choosing sustainable families. In fact, it’s 20 times more effective than changing diet or forms of transportation.
- By 2100 world population could vary by billions of people, depending on whether the average woman in the world today has one child more or one child fewer in her lifetime.
- Child-first family planning provides a clear human rights-based solution and path forward. It’s sustainable and
equitable, and reflected in the worldwide trend towards investing more in each child which will ensure a safer future.