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Despite their potential, censuses have not been sufficiently exploited as key data source for environmental studies and climate change analysis. This slide presenation presents an overview of the potential of census data, provides some examples of the use of census data in particular countries, and highlights the potential of such data to provide evidence in still unexplored areas.

This slide presentation reviews the linkage between climate change and population growth. “Population” effects on emissions are determined by consumption patterns of different countries and social groups. Therefore the document highlights that demographic processes necessitate more explicit consideration and discusses their implications for policy.

This analytical report is the Youth Supplement to the UNFPA report “State of the World population 2009”. The publication looks at 7 stories from young people around the world who have experienced, or live in the midst of, circumstances that are likely to increase in frequency and force, when impacts of climate change arrive broadly. The stories in this publication are examples of what life will bring to millions more young people in the future, if the world fails to take action in order to adapt to and mitigate climate change, and reduce carbon emissions.

This analytical report addresses the challenges and the potential related to urbanization. For the first time in history, more than half its human population, 3.3 billion people, will be living in urban areas. Many of the new urbanites will be poor. Yet no country in the industrial age has ever achieved significant economic growth without urbanization. Cities concentrate poverty, but they also represent the best hope of escaping it. The future of cities in developing countries, the future of humanity itself, all depend very much on decisions made now in preparation for this growth.

This analytical report analyses the linkage among population dynamics, greenhouse gases and climate change. The whole world has been talking about carbon credits, carbon trading and emissions targets. But not enough has been said about the people whose activities contribute to those emissions or about those who will be most affected by climate change, especially women. The climate-change debate needs to be reframed, putting people at the centre. Unless climate policies take people into account, they will fail to mitigate climate change or to shield vulnerable populations from the potentially disastrous impacts.

This manual consists of a comprehensive resource kit on gender, population and climate change developed by UNFPA and WEDO. It shows how gender equality can reduce vulnerability to climate change impacts and how women are uniquely positioned to help curb the harmful consequences of a changing climate.

This document discusses the linkage between climate change, environmental concerns and population dynamics. Reduced to essentials, climate change is ultimately produced by the pressures placed on the Earth’s ecosystem by humankind’s development efforts, especially over the last half-century. This note focuses on the contribution of a population-based development agency to better understanding and more effective responses to the threat of climate change.

This is a Statement by Safiye Çagar, Director of the Information and External Relations Division of the United Nations Population Fund delivered on 2 October 2008 at the EuroNGO’s 2008 Annual Conference. He highlights that while population growth may exacerbate the environmental and food crises, the causes are much more complex, including consumption levels, technology, trade, economic and agricultural policies, as well as values and aspirations.

In this press release UNFPA exhorts G-8 leaders to consider seriously population issues when it deliberates on food security, climate change and maternal health.

This analytical report presents a review of the interaction between urban density, climate change, and sea-level rise. The paper has a focus on two main themes: the interaction between urban density and the generation of greenhouse gases and how this affects mitigation strategies; and the consequences of climate change on urban settlements of varying population densities and how this affects adaptation strategies.

The analytical report considers the implications of population growth and urbanization for climate change in terms of the contribution of urban populations (and centres) to human induced climate change. It emphasizes how it is not the growth in (urban or rural) population but the growth in consumption that drives the growth in greenhouse gas emissions and that a significant proportion of the world’s urban (and rural) population have consumption levels that are so low that they contribute little or nothing to such emissions.

This analytical report reviews the demographic processes involved in population dynamics that necessitate more explicit consideration when dealing with climate change issues and discusses their implications for policy in the context of urbanization, population and global environment conservation.

This analytical report looks at the impact of climate change on population distribution and mobility. Frequently cited figures estimate that by 2050, the number of people forced to move primarily because of climate change will range between 200 million and 1 billion.

This fact sheet looks at the links between population and environmental quality. Understanding them requires knowledge of consumption rates that differ between the rich and the poor, of new and old technologies, of resource extraction and restoration, and of the dynamics of population growth and migration.

This policy document presents the recommendations of the Expert Group on Technology Transfer on future financing options necessary for enhancing the development and transfer of technologies, for consideration by the subsidiary bodies at their thirtieth sessions. It presents three indicative financing options for enhancing the development and transfer of technologies under the Convention: (a) the enhancement of existing and emerging technology financing arrangements; (b) a decentralized or centralized comprehensive new international technology financing scheme; and (c) limited new technology financing and coordination arrangements with sectoral activities.

This UNFCCC fact sheet explains the importance and need for adaptation to climate change, outlining different adaptation options and highlighting current efforts undertaken under the Convention.

This is the report of a workshop identifying successful examples of integrating practices  and tools for climate risk assessment and management and disaster risk reduction strategies into national policies and programmes. The workshop was held under the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change and took place in Havana, Cuba, from 10 to 12 March 2009.

This analytical report is third in a series, produced so as to inform Parties, organizations, and those interested in adaptation about the Nairobi Work Programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change. This brochure introduces the Programme and focuses on its second phase.

This activity report provides a summary of the expert meeting on socio-economic information, held under the Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change. The note also contains an overview of socio-economic information and approaches, including good practices, gaps and needs, across different spatial scales and sectors, as well as recommendations and issues for follow-up and further consideration.

This activity report summarizes the outcomes of an expert meeting on experiences in using performance indicators for the monitoring and the evaluation of capacity-building at the national level. The document covers the lessons learned from proven approaches to the development and application of performance measures for capacity-building for climate change and other areas. The concept of capacity and capacity-building, the purposes, methodologies and challenges of monitoring and evaluating capacity-building, and the principles for the design and application of performance indicators are also discussed.