Condoms cheapest way to fight climate change: Report.Byline: ANI London, Sept 10 (ANI): Condoms are the cheapest way to reduce carbon emissions, claims a controversial new report. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the report for the UK's Optimum Population Trust The Optimum Population Trust is a registered United Kingdom charity, small think tank and campaign group concerned with the impact of population growth on the natural environment. , putting the brake on global population growth would be five times cheaper than any other method of tackling the world's greenhouse gases. The study, which was compiled by the London School of Economics The School is a member of the Russell Group, the European University Association, Association of Commonwealth Universities, the Community of European Management Schools and International Companies, The Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs as well as the Golden , found every 4-pound extra spent on family planning family planning Use of measures designed to regulate the number and spacing of children within a family, largely to curb population growth and ensure each family’s access to limited resources. for the next 40 years would reduce global CO2 emissions by a tonne. It would cost 19 pounds to achieve the same result with low-carbon technologies, reports The Sun. OPT chairman Roger Martin said: "It's always been obvious that total emissions depend on the number of emitters - as well as their individual emissions. "The taboo on mentioning this has made the whole climate change debate so far somewhat unreal." United Nations data indicates that family planning could reduce unintended births by 72 percent, trimming the world's population by half a billion to 8.64 million in 2050. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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