Africa: Scientists Back Wider Family-Planning Access to Ease Climate Threats

London — Making affordable contraception available to women who want it would be a cheap, effective way to curb climate change and fast-rising risks in a hotter world, scientists said on Tuesday.

Worldwide each year, close to 100 million pregnancies are unintended, or 44% of the total, scientists at the New York-based Population Council wrote in an opinion piece in the BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health medical journal.

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