OPT maintains that governments must take both separate and collective action to reduce world population in the long
term by peaceful and non-coercive means - for example by a Kyoto-type protocol that would commit countries to
initial reductions in population to 1990 levels. There is no international protocol designed to stabilise and reduce world
population, however, and OPT believes that vital action needs to come from the bottom up - from citizens deciding
that population policies are necessary, and making a difference by limiting their own family size.