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Optimum Population Trust
The Optimum Population Trust is the leading think tank and campaigning charity in the UK and Europe concerned with the impact of population growth on the environment. OPT research covers population in relation to climate change, energy, ecological resources, biodiversity, development impacts, ageing and employment and other environmental and economic issues. It campaigns for stabilisation and gradual population decrease globally, in the EU and in the UK.
Partner Profile
OPT’s main aims are: to advance the education of the public in issues relating to human population worldwide and its impact on environmental sustainability; to advance, promote and encourage research to determine optimum and ecologically sustainable human population levels in all or any part or parts of the world and to publicise the results of such research; and to advance environmental protection by promoting policies in the UK or any other part or parts of the world which will lead or contribute to the achievement of stable human population levels which allow environmental sustainability.
Research papers, briefings, releases, submissions, statistics and policy proposals are published on the OPT website, including OPT’s latest estimates of ecologically sustainable Optimum Populations. OPT is a registered charity and is financed by its members. It receives funding neither from the government nor from any political or business interests, and is not affiliated with any other organisation, except as a partner of Global Footprint Network.