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Population Matters, formerly known as the Optimum Population Trust, is a UK-based charity [1] that addresses population size and its effects on environmental sustainability. It considers population growth as a major contributor to environmental degradation , biodiversity loss , resource depletion and climate change .
Population Matters (previously the Optimum Population Trust) United States ... Population Connection (called Zero Population Growth until 2002) Population Council;
He was the president of the UK charity Tree Aid, [9] which enables communities in Africa's drylands to fight poverty and become self-reliant, while improving the environment. He was also a patron of population concern charity Population Matters , (formerly known as the Optimum Population Trust), [ 10 ] and told BBC Radio 4's Today programme ...
Porritt is a patron of the population concern charity Population Matters, (formerly known as the Optimum Population Trust). [42] Porritt has stated that population growth is a serious threat to the global environment and that family planning, including both birth control and abortion, [43] is a part of the answer to global warming. He ...
Roger Martin, Chair (Population Matters) Roger Martin profile at Battle of Ideas "Overpopulation is the biggest threat to our climate" "The Great Debate UK", Reuters 16 October 2009 "the Optimum Population Trust", Rodaleworks
He has been a patron of the population concern charity Population Matters (formerly the Optimum Population Trust) since 2008. During 2011-2014 he was Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP) on Global Environmental Change, Bonn. He served as Chair of the Central Government Expert Group on ...
Goodall is also a member of the advisory board of BBC Wildlife magazine and a patron of Population Matters (formerly the Optimum Population Trust). Goodall has received many tributes, honours, and awards from local governments, schools, institutions, and charities around the world.
Population Matters, (formerly known as the Optimum Population Trust), has pointed to a discrepancy between the limited number and size of eco-town schemes and the much larger figure for projected housing need. [22] Supporters counter however that eco-towns will be exemplar settlements, informing future sustainable housing developments for many ...