Under the framing of Navigating Megatrends: The ICPD Programme of Action for a Sustainable Future, the five think pieces are titled: ▶ Demographic Change and Sustainability ▶ The Future of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights ▶ The Future of Population Data ▶ ICPD and Climate Action ▶ A Safe Digital Future This think piece The think pieces explore ways to sustain, refresh and accelerate ICPD. [...] Taking climate action in a context of climate injustice should apply the core principles of the 1992 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development and the 1994 ICPD Programme of Action, including universality and respect for the needs of future generations, and the critical needs to eradicate poverty, assure rights-based population policies, and change patterns of production and consumption (Box. [...] High-fertility anxieties and the top-down policies that responded to them were primary drivers of the global demand for a paradigm shift from population targets to the promotion of individual rights and choices at the ICPD in 1994. [...] Can we promote a better future in light of both demographic diversity and megatrends – and remain guided by the vision, values and agreed actions of the ICPD Programme of Action? Recent population policies that have sought to find “demographic solutions to demographic problems” are not working, precisely because they neither address the complexity of the “problems” nor the underlying drivers of de. [...] DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE AND SUSTAINABILITY | 25 Leaders are encouraged to accept the reality of international migration in a globalized and unequal world and the likelihood that it will increase due to climate and humanitarian crises and economic inequality.
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