“If the world population grows slower by 2050 and totals 8 billion, by 1 billion fewer than projected, gas emissions would decrease by about 2 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide,” says the State of the World Population Report 2009 published by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) on November 18. Moldova contributes 0.3% to the global greenhouse gas emissions, Info-Prim Neo reports. In its annual report, the UNFPA warns that family planning, reproductive health care and gender relations could influence future climate change and affect how humanity adapts to rising seas, worsening storms and severe droughts. This year's State of World Population report concludes that international climate-change agreements and national policies are more likely to succeed if they take into account population dynamics, relationships between the sexes, women's well-being and access to services or opportunities. In Moldova, the debates on climate change are not the center of attention, but the consequences are felt by everyone, UNFPA Moldova says in a press release. The intense migration the last few years can be associated indirectly with the effects of climate change. The land is not so productive anymore owing to drought and flooding and the people are forced to migrate, it is said in the press release. UNFPA Moldova considers the Government should create an authority that would formulate adaptation programs that would be then diversified in such sectors as agriculture, energy and transport. The report, Facing a Changing World: Women, Population and Climate Change, illustrates how climate change threatens to exacerbate the gaps between rich and poor and amplify the inequalities between women and men. The battle against climate change is more likely to be successful if policies, programmes and treaties take into account the needs, rights and potential of women, according to the report. It highlights how societies' adaptation and resilience to climate change can benefit from greater gender equality and access to reproductive health care. This means empowering women, educating girls improving health care and meeting the needs of the 200 million women living in developing countries who would like to space or prevent pregnancies, and who do not have access to reliable and modern contraception. The report is being released in the lead-up to the 15th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, where delegates from around the world are expected to endorse a new treaty to limit the warming of the earth's atmosphere.