Population Matters, formerly known as the Optimum Population Trust, is a UK-based charity that addresses population size and its effects on environmental sustainability.
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11 Facts About Population Matters
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Population Matters was launched as the Optimum Population Trust following a meeting on 24 July 1991 by the late David Willey and others concerned about population numbers and sustainability.
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Optimum Population Matters Trust prepared analyses and lobbied on issues affected by population growth.
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Population Matters' vision is of a future in which our population co-exists in harmony with nature and prospers on a healthy planet, to the benefit of all.
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Population Matters' mission is to drive positive, large-scale action through fostering choices that help achieve a sustainable human population and regenerate our environment.
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Population Matters promotes five solutions to slow and ultimately reverse population growth:.
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Population Matters publishes the editorially independent Journal of Population and Sustainability, an open access, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal exploring all aspects of the relationship between human numbers and environmental issues.
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Population Matters is a member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, has consultative status at the United Nations Economic and Social Council, and is a member of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance.
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Population Matters' patrons are prominent public figures who are outspoken about the impacts of human population growth, including Sir David Attenborough, Chris Packham, Dr Jane Goodall, Leilani Munter, Jonathon Porritt, Sir Partha Dasgupta, Professor Paul Ehrlich, and Professor John Guillebaud.
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In 2015, Population Matters published a blog post disagreeing with an Amnesty International call on the UK and other EU countries to "significantly increase the number of resettlement and humanitarian admission places for refugees from Syria" while saying that these "countries should continue to support migrants from the Syrian civil war and other conflicts in the countries adjacent to those conflicts".
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In 2015, Population Matters advocated stopping child benefit and tax credits for third and subsequent children.
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