Malawi forms think-tank on linking population, climate change

By LUCKY MKANDAWIRE

Malawi has become one of the first nations in the world to build a team of experts on linking population dynamics and climate change.

This follows a successful training workshop on population dynamics and climate change organised jointly by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Washington DC based Population Action International (PAI).

The workshop drew together population and climate change/environmental experts from government, universities, international organisations, media, civil society and non government organisations.

According to the workshop trainer, Roger Mark De Souza, who is Vice President of Research and Director of Climate Program at PAI, the experts are expected to help government and other stakeholders to integrate population dynamics into climate change initiatives at macro, meso and micro levels.

“The workshop also aims to pilot test the training materials that are under development at the global level linking population to climate change programming,” he said.

UNFPA and PAI are developing a series of training materials around population dynamics and climate change to be included in the UN CC Learn which is partnership of 30 UN agencies which supports member states and other developing partners in designing and implementing results-oriented and sustainable learning to address climate change.

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