Michelle D’urbano
AS THE world desperately looks to COP27 for solutions to the climate crisis, on 15 November – in the very midst of the conference – the UN will symbolically mark the point when our global population reaches 8 billion people. The timing may be a coincidence, but the two are undeniably connected.
Earlier this year, a key report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change unequivocally “Globally, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita and population growth remained the strongest drivers of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion in the last decade.” Unsurprisingly, then, a major study into climate…
