“Women have a vital role to play in climate change processes,” said Susan McDade, United Nations resident coordinator in Cuba, at the launching of the 2009 World Population Report.

Entitled Population and Climate in a Changing World, the document urges to move from theoretical discussion to practical action.

“There will be better opportunities to adapt to climate change and minimize its impact only after population dynamics are duly taken into account,” the text indicates.

McDade told media representatives that the relationship between climate change and population growth is very seldom given careful consideration.

“Out of six billion people in the world today, two billion use firewood and bio-fuel to cook. Most of them live in south-east Asia and Africa. Around 27 percent of Latin Americans rely on firewood to cook,” she noted.

“As those bringing firewood home are mainly women and children, kids can not go to school,” she recalled.

“The girls who do not go to school become illiterate women, and we know that such a situation is closely related to family size and population growth,” she stressed.

“A slowdown in population growth can help strengthen social resilience to climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” the report said.

“Women play a key part in children’s education, including rational use of depleted resources such as water and energy, she added.

Rolando García, representative of the United Nations Population Fund in Cuba, highlighted the importance of the report. “Our executive director Thoraya A. Obaid has stressed that climate change is impacting on the entire world population”, he recalled. “Individual attitudes can undermine or favor international actions,” she commented.

Ramón Pichs, deputy-director of the World Economy Research Center, said that climate change is posing both environmental and development challenges.

“The problem is not only due to accelerated population growth, but also due to certain lifestyles and consumption patterns”, he added.

Orlando Rey, head of the Environment Division at the Cuban Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment, indicated that some countries with relatively small populations have traditionally been responsible for most CO₂ ejections into the atmosphere.

“Climate change negotiations have failed to address population and gender issues and have merely focused on mitigation actions,” he added.

“These issues are being raised now because adaptation measures are finally under discussion,” he concluded.

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