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The Global Population and Environment Program's mission is to protect the global environment and preserve natural resources for future generations by advancing global reproductive health and sustainable development initiatives.
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About Our Program
Working with domestic and international coalition partners, we seek to accomplish our mission by:
- Increasing universal access to voluntary family planning services and comprehensive sex education.
- Advancing women's and girls' basic rights, including access to health care, education and economic opportunity.
- Promoting youth leadership.
- Raising public awareness of wasteful resource consumption in the context of social and economic equity.
The UN projects the world's population has reached 7 billion people as of October, 2011. Read about the ramifications of this marker for women, healthcare, agriculture, water, and our planet through the RH Reality Check series on 7 billion. Sierra Club leaders past and present reflect on our growing population and how best to support healthy and sustainable communities and environments moving forward.
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