evidence: First, the report calls for investments in education and health, particularly in low-income countries, and the promotion of full and productive employment for all, including for women, which can lead to a sustained decline in fertility. It also calls for moving the global economy towards greater sustainability by decoupling the growth in population and in economic activity from a further acceleration of resource extraction, waste generation and environmental damage. Limiting climate change and global warming, for example, will require rapid progress in decoupling economic activity from the current over-reliance on fossil fuels. While the report acknowledges that rising populations can exacerbate global problems such as climate change, experts emphasize it is possible for rising population rates and sustainable development to have a healthy relationship.