Low Carbon: Website appeal to fund family planning 'to cut CO2'
Meeting the demand for family planning in poor nations is a cheap and effective way to cut CO2 emissions, a new website initiative claims.
The UK-based Optimum Population Trust says fast-rising population levels lead to growing emissions.
The website is urging wealthy people to offset their own CO2 emissions by funding contraception programmes.
It says taking such action is better value than spending money on wind turbines, solar power or hybrid cars.
Critics would argue the analysis is too simplistic, a BBC correspondent says.
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