World Growth
DURBAN, South Africa, December 7, 2011 -
- New report spotlights anti-growth impacts of REDD+ programs
A new report - Restricting Growth: The Impact of Industrialized Country Climate Strategies onthe World's Poor - will be launched by World Growth at a press conference today at the UN Climate Change Conference in Durban.
DURBAN, South Africa, November 28, 2011 -
-Former President of the Republic of Ghana Writes How Palm Oil is Critical to Africa's Food Security
- Raises Concerns About Efforts to Stop Palm Oil Development in Africa
On the opening day of the United Nations climate talks in Durban, the pro-development NGO World Growth released a new reporturging world leaders to focus on the importance of food security, particularly in Africa, and the critical role of palm oil as an effective strategy to reduce food insecurity.
WASHINGTON, October 7, 2010 - An advertisement in today's Politico newspaper
(www.worldgrowth.org/assets/files/WG-Politico%20Ad_10-7-10.pdf)
accuses the World Bank of turning its back on the poor by withdrawing support
for palm oil, a key agricultural crop that feeds over a billion people in
Africa, Latin America and South East Asia.
LONDON, September 2, 2010 - Today, World Growth Chairman Ambassador Alan Oxley warned of the
consequences for the world's poor of blindly treating as fact erroneous and
widely circulated claims about palm oil in a letter to Mrs.
BANGKOK -
- Report exposes how attempts by environmental NGOs to restrict production, trade of palm oil (a sustainable oil) would harm successful strategies to end poverty, restrict opportunities for developing countries to reduce emissions
Today at the United Nations climate change meeting in Bangkok, the NGO World Growth (www.worldgrowth.org/) released a new report (www.worldgrowth.org/assets/files/Palm_Oil.pdf) exposing the damaging economic and environmental consequences for developing countries of misguided campaigns by Western "green" groups to halt production of palm oil, the most sustainable vegetable oil available.
