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June 8, 2010
SHANGHAI-At an industry conference in Shanghai today, pro-development NGO World Growth released new research, exposing extreme trade barriers in the global pulp and paper market. World Growth Chairman Alan Oxley -- former Chairman of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the predecessor of the World Trade Organization -- cautioned that American industry is joining forces with one of the most protectionist forces in the US, the National Farmers Union, to unfairly stymie forest and agricultural imports.
May 3, 2010
WASHINGTON–Unveiling a new report today entitled “Greenmail: Undermining Corporate Social Responsibility in Emerging Markets,” Alan Oxley -- Chairman of the pro-development NGO World Growth -- released the following statement: “Western environmental activists such as Greenpeace and Rainforest Action Network have launched ‘greenmail’ campaigns against major companies in Europe and the US to boycott paper and agricultural products from Indonesia and China. Greenmail is a dubious but common practice in which large environmental groups threaten to publicly besmirch businesses in order to coerce them to shed successful practices which don’t fit with activists’ agenda.
December 9, 2009
COPENHAGEN – In response to endorsements by leading figures in the UN climate change negotiations of a misguided proposal which would doom 150 million people to continuing poverty, World Growth Chairman Alan Oxley -- an observer at the Copenhagen conference and author of a new report (“Conversion - The Immutable Link between Forestry and Development”) -- released the following statement: “With discovery of a controversial draft climate agreement being circulated among some delegations, the frustration of the poorest developing nations is rising. And rightly so. While it’s common to share early draft proposals, this particular document included a startling feature -- a proposition that developing countries cease all clearance of forest land.
December 8, 2009
COPENHAGEN – Today, the pro-development NGO, World Growth, released a report at a UNFCCC Copenhagen press conference that shows drastically overstated deforestation rates are being used to justify climate policies that will harm economic growth in developing countries. “It is standard for groups like World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) to say that deforestation contributes to 20 per cent of global emissions, but it’s closer to 5 percent as shown in our research report, ‘Conversion – The Immutable Link between Forestry and Development,’” said Alan Oxley, Chairman of World Growth.
