Population Matters

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Population Matters

Founded	1991
Founder(s)	David Willey
Headquarters	United Kingdom
Key people	Simon Ross (CEO)
Focus(es)	Impact of population growth
Motto	"For a sustainable future"
Website	populationmatters.org

Population Matters, formerly known as the Optimum Population Trust,^[1] is a registered United Kingdom charity,^[2] think tank, and campaign group concerned with the impact of population growth on long term sustainability, quality of life and the natural environment, specifically natural resources, climate change, and biodiversity.

Population Matters researches climate change, energy requirements, biodiversity, and other environmental factors in relation to population numbers. It campaigns for population stabilisation and gradual decrease to sustainable levels for both the world and the United Kingdom. In 2009, the organisation issued a study asserting that contraception was the cheapest way of combating climate change. ^[3]

The trust states that its intermediate aims are: improved provision of family planning and sex education, better education and rights for women, and that couples voluntarily "have two or fewer". For the UK specifically, it advocates greater effort to reduce the high rates of teenage pregnancy and unintended pregnancy and that immigration be brought into balance with emigration.

The Optimum Population Trust was founded in 1991 by the late David Willey. It was granted charitable status on 9 May 2006. The working name was changed to Population Matters in February 2011.

Chairs

The current chair is Roger Martin. Past chairs, in chronological order, were:

David Willey

Edmund Davey

Rosamund McDougall and John Guillebaud (co-chairs)
John Guillebaud

Val Stevens
Sue Birley
Val Stevens.

Patrons

Sir David Attenborough OM CH CVO CBE, Naturalist, broadcaster and trustee of the British Museum and Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew; and a former controller of BBC Two
Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta, Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge
Professor Paul Ehrlich, Bing Professor of Population Studies, Stanford University
Baroness Shreela Flather, politician and past mayor of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
Dr Jane Goodall DBE, Founder, Jane Goodall Institute, and UN Messenger of Peace
Susan Hampshire OBE, Actress and population campaigner
Professor John Guillebaud, Emeritus Professor of Family Planning and Reproductive Health, University College, London.
Dr James Lovelock CBE, Scientist and environmentalist known for proposing the Gaia theory that Earth functions as an organism, and author of 'The Revenge of Gaia'
Professor Aubrey Manning OBE, Emeritus Professor of Natural History, University of Edinburgh
Professor Norman Myers CMG, Visiting Fellow, Green College, Oxford University, and at Harvard University, Cornell University, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Michigan University and University of Texas
Chris Packham, Naturalist, nature photographer, television presenter and author.
Sara Parkin OBE, Founder Director and Trustee of Forum for the Future, Chair of the Richard Sandbrook Trust, Board member of the European Training Foundation
Jonathon Porritt CBE, Founder Director of Forum for the Future and former Chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission
Lionel Shriver Journalist and author
Sir Crispin Tickell GCMG KCVO, Chancellor of Kent University, Director of the Policy Foresight Programme at the James Martin Institute, and former UK Permanent Representative on the United Nations Security Council

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v t e Human population

Major topics	Family planning Green Revolution Over-consumption Water crisis Overpopulation Malthusian catastrophe Reproductive rights Sustainable development World population

Biological topics	Human population control US immigration reduction One-child policy Two-child policy Population biology Population decline Population density Physiological density Population dynamics Population growth Population pyramid Projections of population growth Zero population growth

Population ecology	Biocapacity Carrying capacity Deep ecology Earth's energy budget Food security Habitat destruction I = P × A × T Malthusian growth model Optimum population Overshoot (ecology) World energy consumption World energy resources World3 model

Literature	A Modest Proposal An Essay on the Principle of Population How Much Land Does a Man Need? Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth The Limits to Growth The Population Bomb The Skeptical Environmentalist The Ultimate Resource

Lists	Metropolitan areas by population World population milestones

Events and organizations	Day of Seven Billion International Conference on Population and Development Population Action International Population Connection Population Matters United Nations Population Fund Voluntary Human Extinction Movement World Population Day World Population Foundation

Related topics	Classic Maya collapse Fertility and intelligence Holocene extinction

v t e Sustainability

Foundations	Ecological modernization Environmentalism Human impact on the environment Planetary boundaries Stewardship Sustainable development

Consumption	Anthropization Anti-consumerism Ecological footprint Ethical Over-consumption Simple living Sustainability advertising Sustainability brand Sustainability marketing myopia Sustainable Systemic change resistance Tragedy of the commons

Population	Birth control Family planning Control Overpopulation Zero growth

Technology	Appropriate Environmental Sustainable

Biodiversity	Biosecurity Biosphere Conservation biology Deep ecology Endangered species Holocene extinction Invasive species

Energy	Carbon footprint Climate change mitigation Conservation Descent Efficiency Emissions trading Peak oil Renewable

Food	Forest gardening Local Permaculture Security Sustainable agriculture Sustainable fishery Urban horticulture

Water	Conservation Crisis Efficiency Footprint

Accountability	Sustainability accounting Sustainability measurement Sustainability metrics and indices Sustainability reporting Sustainability science Standards and certification Sustainable yield

Applications	Advertising Architecture Art Business City College programs Community Design Education for Sustainable Development Fashion Gardening Green marketing Industries Landscape architecture Living Low-impact development Organizations Packaging Practices Procurement Tourism Transport Urban drainage systems Urban infrastructure

Management	Environmental Fisheries Forest Natural resource Planetary Waste

Agreements	UN Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm 1972) Brundtlandt Commission Report (1983) Our Common Future (1987) Earth Summit (1992) Rio Declaration on Environment and Development Agenda 21 (1992) Convention on Biological Diversity (1992) ICPD Programme of Action (1994) Earth Charter Lisbon Principles UN Millennium Declaration (2000) Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005)

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