UPDATE: The BOCS Civilisation Planning Foundation is one of the main signatories of a similar letter to COP28!

NEW COALITION OF ORGANIZATIONS CALLS FOR SUSTAINABLE FAMILY PLANNING IN FACE OF CLIMATE CRISIS

National organizations urge COP26 leaders to protect most vulnerable

San Francisco, CA – Dozens of leading NGOs are calling on the President and Delegates of the COP26 in this open letter to take an urgent and clear public position recommending just and sustainable family planning as the most effective solution to address the climate crisis, and rising global inequality, including gender inequity.

The global community has failed to inform and support a universal effort towards just and sustainable family planning, which:

• Is human-rights centered
• Ensures sustainable and equitable resources for greater investment in each child
• Enables communities and governments to protect children and future generations while upholding reproductive rights

On the contrary, pressures to increase births, or to obstruct family planning programs, are driving our biggest crises and putting the health, safety, and welfare of current and future generations in peril. Unsustainable population growth, a documented threat multiplier, is contributing to catastrophic climate change, unprecedented flooding, pandemics, ecosystem destruction, groundwater depletion, mass extinctions, and environmental degradation. Worsening inequality, in large part driven by our growing population, is also a grave threat to democracy and political stability across the globe.

Here are the facts:

• The most effective way to address many of the impacts on our environment and other species, like climate change, is by choosing smaller families. It’s up to 20 times more effective than changing diet or forms of transportation.
• By 2100 world population could vary by billions of people, depending on whether the average woman in the world today has one child more or one child fewer in her lifetime.
• Better family planning is the best way to reduce inequality. Other interventions alone are simply too late.

Nandita Bajaj, Executive Director of Population Balance says, “Our growth-driven policies are not only a cause of immense suffering for marginalised human and ecological communities, present and future, but they are premised upon oppressive power structures. Not only are reproductive, intergenerational, and ecological justice under attack, our current unsustainable growth-centred family planning policies are threatening all life on earth. We collectively need to acknowledge and address the urgency of this predicament.”

Fair Start Movement is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to reforming family planning by replacing growth-centered family planning models with the human rights-based and child-first Fair Start model. 

Population Balance is a 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization that provides education and solutions to address the impacts of human overpopulation and overconsumption on the planet, people, and animals.

Source: Fair Start Movement | Carter Dillard | 27 Okt. 2021

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Happiness planning (contraception) is the most efficient way of protecting the environment and the climate, helpint the emergence from poverty, improving public safety, achieving peace and gender equality, ensuring the happiness of children, and preventing unemployment and mass migration. Still, only a fraction of the aids for developing countries goes for this, primarily due to the ignorance and prudery of the public opinion. So the money is already there, we just need to realize our own interests, which is one with that of the poor, as everyone wins with providing the right, know-how, and means of happiness planning. The global education of BOCS Civilization Planning Foundation facilitate this.

The BOCS Civilization Planning Foundation since 1975 for a sustainable civilization. – President: Gyula I. Simonyi

Its main goal is promoting a sustainable love-civilization, supporting environmental protection, the peace movement, and poor countries, as well as global education in Hungary, Africa, India, and other poor countries.

In 1998, Gyula I. Simonyi, the president of BOCS was invited to the Balaton Group, the annual meeting of the global network of sustainability researchers that started out in 1982. The BOCS Civilization Planning Foundation acquired the qualification of public benefit in 1999, for its environmental protection and informative activity. Our projects, global education, Indian and African partnerships help Hungary to fulfill its international obligations to support poor countries, the Cairo Programme of Action, and the Millenium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals, thereby contributing to enforcing human rights, and protecting nature.

Since 2006, the BOCS Civilization Planning Foundation is a member of the EuroNGOs.org European network that supports the Programme of Action of the UN’s 1994 International Conference on Population and Development that is still in effect. It is the Hungarian member of the European network of eurASP.org. In 2009, BOCS received the MTA’s (Hungarian Scientific Academy) MÖTE (Scientific Association of Hungarian Ecologists) award for popularizing Ecology.

BOCS is the first Eastern European member of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize winner ICBL (since 1995).

Gyula I. Simonyi president, mathematician, economist, catechist, IT, system analyst, sustainability researcher and lecturer The BOCS already appeared in 1993 in this address database compiled by the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center:

Kinga Kirinovics board member, horticulturist, medicinal and aromatic plants	Andrea Kováts sustainability expert, humanities	Gábor Rozsics board member, engineer	Beáta Szabó board secretary, international relations specialist, childfree advocate, English teacher

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THE CAIRO PROGRAMME OF ACTION – The Action Program of UN International Conference on Population and Development Cairo, 1994

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, where 179 governments adopted a landmark Programme of Action which set out to empower women and girls for their sake, and for the benefit of
their families, communities and nations.

Women Deliver is a leading global advocate that champions gender equality and the health and rights of girls and women.

Inspire is the partnership of organisations that act together inside and from Europe to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) for all. We want to be a catalyst for action and progress in the field of SRHR. The BOCS Foundation is a member of Inspire since 2006.

EPF is a network of members of parliaments from across Europe who are committed to protecting the sexual and reproductive health of the world’s most vulnerable people, both at home and overseas.

UNFPA is the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. Our mission is to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled.

“All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder — and ultimately impossible — to solve with ever more people.”

– Sir David Attenborough, Patron of Population Matters

Global Footprint Network, an international nonprofit organization founded in 2003, envisions a future where all can thrive within the means of our one planet. They enable their vision through their mission: to help end ecological overshoot by making ecological limits central to decision-making.

Founded in response to the horrors of war in Europe, the IFOR has taken a consistent stance against war and its preparation throughout its history. The BOCS Foundation is a member of IFOR since 1995.

The European Bureau for Conscientious Objection to Military Service (EBCO) was set up in 1979 as an umbrella organisation to promote collective campaigns for the release of imprisoned conscientious objectors and to lobby European governments and institutions for full recognition of the right to conscientious objection to military service.

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