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About Us

Hub | October 13, 2009 at 13:33

Greenpeace India was founded in 2001, and is a legally registered society with offices in Chennai, Delhi, Bengaluru and Patna. Our governance structure has an Executive Board made up of notable Indian citizens, an Executive Director Dr. Ravi...

India Ratifies the Paris Agreement

Press release | October 3, 2016 at 16:29

New Delhi, October 2nd, 2016: On the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, the Indian government today deposited India’s instrument of ratification of the historic Paris climate agreement with the United Nations.

Indo-Japanese Nuclear Agreement Amounts to Nuclear Proliferation in Asia

Press release | November 10, 2016 at 14:43

New Delhi/ Tokyo, 10 November 2016 --The signing of the Nuclear Cooperation Agreement between Japan and India, will not save Westinghouse/Toshiba’s failing nuclear business, nor will it deliver safe energy for the people of India. Instead, it...

China’s Pearl River being poisoned by factories due to inadequate pollution regulation

Press release | October 28, 2009 at 5:30

GUANGZHOU, China — According to a new Greenpeace research published today, industrial discharges are poisoning China’s Pearl River Delta.(1) The problem is exacerbated by inadequate water pollution regulation, allowing factories to discharge...

Six Greenpeace activists in UK released in landmark verdict

Feature story | September 10, 2008 at 5:30

KENT, United Kingdom — On 9th October 2007 a bunch of Greenpeace activists shutdown a coal fired power plant in Kingsnorth, Kent, UK. They were arrested and charged with criminal damage. Nearly one year later and they have been acquitted in a...

Say No to Climate change and Power Cuts-SMS BTB to 4646

Feature story | May 4, 2007 at 5:30

NEW DELHI, India — The Greenpeace Climate Patrol team got down to some serious action today! They were spotted in the Janpath market raiding inefficient and hazardous light bulbs and replacing them with energy efficient compact fluroscent lamps.

Problem: Patient Mumbai in ICU; BMC Solution: Stick a Band Aid

Feature story | September 26, 2006 at 5:30

MUMBAI, India — Finally, although late by atleast ten years, the talk about climate change has trickled down to the street in Mumbai. Midday informs us that Altaf Lakadwala believes that Mallika Sherawat is spreading ‘global warming’ as Pyar Ke...

Quit Coal

Hub | September 23, 2010 at 13:45

There is a huge surge in coal mining and the number of coal fired power plants in the guise of meeting electricity demands and development for the country. However coal cannot deliver India’s growth and development aspirations beyond a few years.

Paris Agreement

Press release | April 23, 2016 at 13:59

New York/ New Delhi |April 22 2016|Even as Officials from over 120 countries, including India, gather to sign the Paris Agreement today at New York, latest scientific data reinforces the urgency for action. The first three months of 2016 were the...

Statement From Greenpeace India On The Signing Of The Paris Agreement At The UN

Feature story | April 23, 2016 at 14:13

New York/ New Delhi |April 22 2016|Even as Officials from over 120 countries, including India, gather to sign the Paris Agreement today at New York, latest scientific data reinforces the urgency for action. The first three months of 2016 were the...

Solutions

Hub | October 6, 2010 at 18:54

Greenpeace is pushing for some big, visionary measures to turn around the global trend towards runaway climate change.

Climate Impacts

Hub | September 23, 2010 at 13:59

Climate change is already harming people and ecosystems. Its reality can be seen in melting glaciers, disintegrating polar ice, thawing permafrost, changing monsoon patterns, rising sea levels, changing ecosystems and fatal heat waves. Scientists...

One Year Since NAQI Launch, But System Far From Robust

Press release | April 6, 2016 at 14:18

New Delhi 5th April 2016| One year ago, when the Prime Minister of India launched the National Air Quality Index platform to monitor the air quality in major urban centers across the country on a real time basis, Greenpeace had welcomed the...

Make IT Green

Publication | April 2, 2010 at 14:53

Cloud Computing and its contribution to Climate Change.

Ranking Guide

Publication | April 30, 2007 at 5:30

The Greenpeace guide to climate-safe lighting

How much climate change can we bear?

Publication | November 30, 2006 at 16:53

The stated goal of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992) is to avoid ‘dangerous climate change’. We are committed to 1.2-1.3ºC of global average temperature rise above pre-industrial levels from the greenhouse gases...

Fight Climate Change with Energy Conservation

Publication | November 30, 2006 at 16:21

Climate change is the most serious threat facing the world today. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), one of the largest bodies of international scientists ever assembled, has concluded that most of...

List of Websites for the Power Sector

Publication | April 8, 2005 at 19:14

A list of online resources for information on the power sector.

Choose Positive Energy: Making it possible

Publication | April 5, 2005 at 5:30

Not Done Yet!

Press release | December 19, 2009 at 13:08

COPENHAGEN, India — World leaders have failed us. They have walked away from the global summit in Copenhagen without a treaty to save the climate. They still have a chance to get it right and we will not let them fail. The future of 6.5 billion...

Stop radioactive investment!

Hub | October 20, 2010 at 3:57

Stop radioactive investment

Climate and Energy Reports

Hub | October 6, 2010 at 19:01

Climate and energy reports

Cricket, Cinema and Climate Change

Feature story | February 7, 2008 at 5:30

Everyone knows that Cricket and Cinema are possibly the two greatest uniting factors in India. When we heard that a cricket match was going to be played by movie stars in Chennai, we knew that it was the perfect place to talk about climate change.

Greenpeace Climate 6 granted conditional bail

Press release | October 15, 2007 at 5:30

PURBA MIDINIPUR, India — Six Greenpeace activists, four male and two female were produced in the court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Purba Midinipur, at 2.15 pm this afternoon and granted bail. Judge Sukumar Ray pronounced his verdict after...

The Rainbow Warrior arrived in Kolkotta today.

Feature story | October 12, 2007 at 23:19

KOLKATA, India — At the same time news arrived that Al Gore and the IPCC were awarded the Noble Prize for Peace because of their work to raise awareness about climate change.

Greenpeace calls off blockade at Surya factory in Kashipur.

Press release | August 8, 2007 at 5:30

UTTRANCHAL/KASHIPUR, India — After preventing the movement of incandescent bulbs out of the Surya bulb manufacturing unit in Kashipur for more than ten hours, activists of Greenpeace ended their blockade of the factory late at night. The company...

Greenpeace Exhibits Bulb Innovations for the Climate at the Philips Innovation Centre

Press release | June 29, 2007 at 5:30

BANGALORE, India — Greenpeace today demonstrated several innovative uses for the light bulb at the Philips Innovation Centre in Bangalore. Interacting with employees and management at the Innovation Centre, Greenpeace activists sent out the...

Climate refugee Antarctic Penguins join the Bangalore Midnight Marathon

Press release | May 19, 2007 at 5:30

BANGALORE, India — A family of displaced Penguins from the Antarctica were today spotted on the streets of Bangalore as they joined thousands of others in the Midnight Marathon holding placards with the message "Stop Climate Change, Ban the Bulb"...

Children take action against climate change; join the Greenpeace Ban the Bulb...

Press release | May 11, 2007 at 5:30

NEW DELHI, India — While the city geared up to celebrate the hundred and fifty years of the Indian war of independence, students of K R Mangalam World School, New Delhi took a step to usher in a world free from climate change. Over fifty students...

The Totem at Inbloom

Feature story | January 25, 2007 at 5:30

BANGALORE, India — Solar Generation’s totem of resistance started its long journey on the 18th of January at Christ college inter collegiate festival “INBLOOM”. We were given a prime position during the fest. The totem lived in the campus for 2...

Greenpeace Raises an Alarm about the impact of Human Induced Climate Change

Press release | November 22, 2006 at 5:30

KOLKATA, India — Greenpeace urges the government to incorporate climate protection within the developmental framework

Yellow River at Risk

Press release | October 15, 2005 at 23:23

BEIJING, China — Scientists say a catalogue of environmental damage linked to climate change is pushing the Yellow River source region into an ecological breakdown, in a new survey commissioned by Greenpeace.

Climate change in India

Feature story | December 9, 2004 at 5:30

ORISSA, India — Right now, representatives of the world's governments are sitting in Argentina discussing climate change. But while they're talking, global warming is already distrupting people's lives. Here's a report from Greenpeace activist...

From the tree-top….

Feature story | June 7, 2005 at 5:30

BANGALORE, India — A bamboo, plywood and jute platform on the tree opposite the India Coffee House formed the space for registering our message and presence among the din of voices surrounding the commemoration of the World Environment Day.

Climate Change is Happening! Glacier Retreats is a fact!

Feature story | March 11, 2005 at 5:30

BANGALORE, India — Climate change is a hot topic these days. In more ways than one. For us at Greenpeace it gets particulary hot when the fossil-fuel corporation use paper-back fiction, fantasy advertising and cynical columnists to fib-off what...

Exxon secrets

Feature story | June 22, 2004 at 5:30

WASHINGTON, DC, United States — The secret's out. Climate sceptics being funded by ExxonMobil can no longer hide behind the name of a front group. A new website - www.exxonsecrets.org - exposes the links between ExxonMobil money and the think...

Commit to an Eco-Friendly Lifestyle

Feature story | August 28, 2004 at 5:30

BANGALORE, India — This year, on World Environment Day, you can do more than express token appreciation for the environment around you – you can commit to a toxic-free future, one that is healthy for you, safe for your family, and does not...

Uncharted waters for the Climate?

Feature story | December 6, 2004 at 5:30

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Politicians from around the world are gathering in Argentina to discuss climate change. We have unveiled our own 'Climate Ark' in the centre of Buenos Aires to illustrate the urgent need for action.

The Orissa file - Akshay

Page | August 17, 2005 at 16:54

We departed for Bhubaneswar, via Chennai, on the 15th of july. The train journey, which went on for almost 2 days, was comfortable...except for a brief period through Andhra Pradesh where the heat of the day proved to be a bit more than we could...

Model Law

Publication | April 17, 2007 at 5:30

Phase out of inefficient lighting a significant contribution to energy efficiency in india.

Switch for Mumbai Flyer

Publication | December 1, 2006 at 5:30

CLIMATE CHANGE is erratic shifts in weather patterns that occur due to global warming. Its effects include sea level rise, glacial melt, changes in rainfall, as well as calamities such as droughts, floods, heat waves and cyclones. All these can...

MoP petition

Publication | November 28, 2005 at 17:49

How Much Climate Change Can We Bear?

Publication | November 7, 2005 at 12:02

Refrigeration scenario in India : the environment on the rocks

Publication | November 7, 2005 at 11:53

Climate change and the greenhouse gases

Publication | November 7, 2005 at 11:41

Greenfreeze petition

Publication | November 7, 2005 at 11:29

Feasibility of Renewable Energy Power in Orissa

Publication | April 5, 2005 at 5:30

Leaked documents revealing Blair's global warming betrayal

Publication | February 3, 2005 at 5:30

Fabric of Hope unfurled in Delhi

Press release | December 12, 2009 at 5:30

NEW DELHI, India — New Delhi, 12th December 2009: In response to the uncertainty in the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, citizens stepped out onto the street to voice their demand for a fair, ambitious and legally binding treaty to...

Climate Change = Water Crisis

Feature story | July 17, 2009 at 5:30

DELHI, India — 25 Greenpeace activists queued up outside the Reserve Bank of India to deposit 100’s of pots of water for safe keeping to highlight the issue of the growing water crisis fuelled by climate change. The activists unfurled a banner...

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