You Are Invited, February, 22 2012:
Reaching Out at Rio: Population Growth, Family Planning, and Environmentalists
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Environmental Change and Security Program
Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington DC
5th Floor Conference Room
RSVP Agenda Directions
Kate Sheppard, Reporter, Mother Jones
Nancy Belden, Partner, Belden Russonello Strategists
Kim Lovell, Associate Washington Representative, Global Population and Environment Program, Sierra Club
While recognition of the connections between population growth and environmental impact is growing, they are still poorly understood by both the environmental and family planning communities. Environmental scientists and demographers rarely work together to produce interdisciplinary analysis. Reproductive health and environmental practitioners stay in their stovepipes, despite the evidence that integrated development projects are more successful than single-sector efforts. Donors and advocates fear "mission creep" and avoid the stigma of straying into potentially controversial sectors. And when the mass media covers it at all, reporting often lacks nuance or focuses on political aspects rather than the evidence base.
This failure to communicate has potentially disastrous results for both the environmental and reproductive health policies being developed at this crucial juncture. This panel, composed of expert communicators well-versed in both reproductive health and environmental "languages," will conduct a frank but nuanced discussion of the linkages and the challenges of communicating them.
Nancy Belden from Belden Russonello Strategists will present findings from a recent report commissioned by Americans for UNFPA on environmentalists’ perception of the relationship between population and international voluntary contraception; Kim Lovell will talk about the Sierra Club’s outreach efforts to its members about reproductive health and the environment; and Mother Jones’ Kate Sheppard will discuss the challenges of covering these issues in the media.
This event will NOT be webcast.
Location: Woodrow Wilson Center at the Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington DC, USA ("Federal Triangle" stop on Blue/Orange Line), 5th floor conference room. A map to the Center is available at www.wilsoncenter.org/directions. Note: Due to heightened security, entrance to the building will be restricted and photo identification is required. Please allow additional time to pass through security.
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