Climate Change and Population

Climate Change and Population | Union of Concerned Scientists

A misplaced focus on population growth as a key driver of past, present, and future climate change conflates a rise in emissions with an increase in people.

The Connections Between Population and Climate Change

Population growth, along with increasing consumption, tends to increase emissions of climate-changing greenhouse gases. Rapid population growth worsens the ...

Population and Climate Change: Decent Living for All without ...

A few scientific studies have demonstrated some evidence that younger generations view climate change as a reason for intending not to have children.

Population Pressure and the Climate Crisis

Climate change is being cited by young people as a reason to have fewer children. According to a 2018 New York Times poll, men and women aged 20-45 are having ...

Climate change - Population Matters

The UN projects that without further action to address population growth, there will be two billion more people by 2050, and three-and-a-half billion more by ...

Climate Change Impacts and Emerging Population Trends

The IPCC has already described a variety of potential climate change impacts on human communities, without taking into account population trends.

How are population growth and climate change related?

Overpopulation is directly contributing to climate change, and that, in turn, is causing devastating effects, especially in communities with ...

Study shatters myth that population growth is a major driver of ...

There is at most a weak link between population growth and rising emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change, says a study published today (28 ...

Population growth, environmental degradation and climate change

Population growth, environmental degradation and climate change. More than a third of 50 recently surveyed Nobel laureates cited “population rise / ...

Climate change - World Health Organization (WHO)

Between 2030 and 2050, climate change is expected to cause approximately 250 000 additional deaths per year, from undernutrition, malaria, ...

Is Population Control a Climate Change Solution?

A proposal to solve climate change by reducing fertility violates the tenets of reproductive justice—and sparks tough ethical questions. By ...

How climate change and population growth will transform cities ...

How climate change and population growth will transform cities' energy use. Researchers estimate the electricity used per square foot to cool ...

Climate Change - Population Connection

Climate change is closely linked to population growth. In high-income countries especially, each additional person produces significant emissions.

Can Population Decline Stop Climate Change? - Earth.Org

This article explores how population growth is linked to carbon emissions and why population decline in high-income countries might be a welcome trend but not ...

Demography and climate change: new study explores links between ...

How global demographic trends affect climate policies. Population growth is projected to reach almost 10 billion people by 2060. Almost by ...

Population and climate change - PubMed

From 2010 to 2050, the human population is likely to grow bigger, more slowly, older, and more urban.

The Climate Challenge of the World's Population Hitting 8 Billion

Whether you're a dour Malthusian or a technological optimist, one thing is undeniable: The 2.7 billion people added to global population since ...

85 percent of the world population lives in areas affected by climate ...

At least 85 percent of the global population has experienced weather events made worse by climate change, according to research published Monday in the journal ...

Climate Change, Population Growth, and Population Pressure | NBER

We find that standard population growth projections imply larger reductions in income than even the most extreme widely-adopted climate change ...

How does population influence climate change? Evidence from ...

Fabrizio Natale, Phillip Ueffing, and Christoph Deuster analyse the relationship between demographics and climate change, particularly in the European Union.