PLEA Network

12 May 2015, IIASA, Linking population and climate change: Population growth and changes in demographic structure are a key factor influencing future climate change, as well as people’s ability to adapt. People’s lifestyles and consumption habits make a huge difference in climate change projections. In a new article published in the journal Population Studies, IIASA demographers Wolfgang Lutz and Erich Striessnig describe new research linking population change with climate change scenarios. The research relies on new IIASA population projections, which include not just the numbers of people, but also the composition of populations by age, sex, and educational attainment for a number of different scenarios designed for climate research, the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs). Read More here