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Act now to prevent climate change or rehabilitate 12.5 crore people – Greenpeace warns
In a dramatic action early this morning, singer Rabbi joined Greenpeace activists who have occupied "prime real estate" and set up a "migrant colony" of hutments 35 ft above the Delhi Noida toll bridge. This occupation will continue all day and will highlight the urgency of creating a National Climate Action plan (NCAP) that focuses on taking action now to prevent climate change. Indications are that the government's approach to the NCAP is to wait and deal with the nightmarish consequences through "adaptation".
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April 21, 2008
Activists wearing masks of Kapil Sibal, the Union Minister of Science and technology, distributed models of GE Brinjal near Technology Bhavan today. This was to highlight that the nexus between policy makers and private companies in promoting Genetically Engineered (GE) crops can pose a serious threat to public health and safety. A banner in the backdrop in the shape of a mock certificate read ‘GE food safe certified by Mahyco’
April 05, 2008
A coalition of Indian conservationists, comprising Wildlife Protection Society of India (WPSI), the Wildlife Society of Orissa (WSO) and Greenpeace India, has called on TATAs to reconsider their Dhamra Deepwater Port [1] in Orissa, citing the threat it poses to endangered sea turtles and two important Protected Areas. Construction on the Port is proceeding in the absence of a comprehensive Environment Impact Analysis and with disregard to the Precautionary Principle, which TATA Steel professes to adhere to as a member of The Global Compact [2].
March 25, 2008
Greenpeace alerted the Indian government and people of the subcontinent to the massive humanitarian crisis the South Asian region could face if global warming was not kept below the 2 degree tipping point. “Blue Alert – Climate Migrants in South Asia: Estimates and Solutions, a paper authored by Dr Sudhir Chella Rajan , professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Madras, and a climate expert, estimates the number of people who could be displaced from their homes at 125 million in India and Bangladesh alone.
