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About Us
 The Center for Environment and Population (CEP) is a project of the Tides Center. It was founded in 1999 as an offshoot of a UNFPA-funded American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) program to implement the UN International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action, and, to ensure that the best available science-based knowledge on key human population and environmental issues and linkages is actively integrated into policies and advocacy at the US grassroots/community to national, and international levels. The environmental impacts of human population are occurring at rates, scales, and types never before experienced. Women and girls are uniquely affected, and, US and global reproductive health policies are integral to the challenges and solutions. The analyses of these issues - particularly the most current scientific thinking and emerging trends in the field - are rarely fully reflected in public policies, outreach, and advocacy. Scientists and other leading experts seldom have the opportunity to communicate their research or knowledge broadly, so decision makers and the general public do not often benefit from their findings. In addition, core issues such as women/girl-centered approaches to health and development, reproductive health, and youth are often under-represented in efforts to achieve a long-term sustainable balance between people and the natural environment, and; to improve the lives and health of women and children in the US and worldwide. The Center uniquely fills this gap by partnering with leading organizations such as Population Action International, Climate Wise Women, Population Reference Bureau, UNFPA, League of Women Voters, Izaak Walton League, Alliance for Global Conservation, Sierra Club, Yale University, and others (see Partners), to form a critical triangle from science, to policy, to public advocacy on the issues. Through award-winning, groundbreaking resource materials and strategically planned activities, the Center, with its partners, strengthens the scientific basis of policies and advocacy in order to move the issues forward. CEP does this through its three program areas: population and environment linkages; women/girls empowerment, and; reproductive health - in the US and/or globally.
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Center for Environment & Population (CEP) • 161 Cherry Street, New Canaan, CT 06840 |
