CONCLUSION

Environmental issues are some of the most important issues of our times. Everybody talks about the end of earth caused by industrialization and insatiable human desire to attain higher and higher levels of material development. Climate change is a high probability risk. Though this is true that the developed countries are more responsible for environmental degradation and climate change, the developing countries too have to accept their part in protecting environment. They also see a link between rapid population growth and climate change.

To quote from UNFPA's State of World Population 2009:

Thirty-seven of the 41 National Adaptation Programmes of Action, or NAPAs, which the developing-country Governments had submitted to the UNFCCC by May 2009 explicitly link climate change and population and identify rapid population growth as a problem that either exacerbates the effects of climate change or hinders the ability of countries to adapt to it. Through the preparation of NAPAs, the least developed countries state their priorities and needs for adapting to climate change. The growth of population can contribute to freshwater scarcity or degradation of cropland, which may in turn exacerbate the impacts of climate change. So too can population growth make it more difficult for Governments to alleviate poverty and achieve the Millennium Development Goals.