Morning Briefing

Inter Press Service examines the relationship between climate change and family planning in least-developed countries (LDCs), writing the "double challenge of mitigating climate change and combating crushing poverty makes improving reproductive rights and promoting gender equality imperatives that can no longer be delayed, according to several recent reports and agreements." IPS highlights several reports and agreements, including an agreement between U.N. Women and the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) that "aims at tackling gender inequality in the 75 OIF member states, most of which are also LDCs"; an agreement between U.N. Women and the European Union "to strengthen cooperation between the two organizations in their work on gender equality"; and the Royal Society of London's People and the Planet report, "which focuses on reproductive rights and social justice as cornerstones of global economic sustainability" (Godoy, 5/30).