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BANGALORE, India — Solar Generation joins hands with young people from across Bangalore celebrating youth resistance against climate change. Solar Generation is the youth-wing of Greenpeace India demanding clean energy now! It was launched on...

NEW DEHLI, India — Test results released today by Greenpeace International establish that rice products being sold in the Middle East region have also been contaminated by Bayer's illegal genetically engineered (GE) rice grown in field trials in...

MUMBAI, India — Greenpeace today released a report that emphasises no need for capacity addition of electricity generation through thermal power plants (TPPs) in Maharashtra (1). "The current shortage in the state can be easily met through energy...

BOMBAY, India — In a jolt to environmentally inert Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, Greenpeace volunteers knocked its doors, and submitted a memorandum demanding commitment from the civic body for a drastic cut in its energy consumption...

A Greenpeace study has revealed the presence of toxic substances in well-known brand laptops, with HP and Apple having the highest contamination levels. (1) HP's statement on its website that brominated flame retardant (BFR) decaBDE had been...

MUMBAI, India — It’s a wake up call to Mumbai citizens- climate change is here. And a call to join “Switch for Mumbai’, a Greenpeace initiative that rolled on the road of Khar as residents from local ALMs, municipal councilor and Greenpeace...

NEW DELHI, India — High-level sources say that the inspection committee on Blue Lady was under intense pressure to give clearance to the vessel for beaching, as per the admissions by credible sources within Technical Committee on Ship-breaking.

BANGALORE, India — One day before Wipro’s AGM, as the deadline for the public challenge that Greenpeace had issued to Wipro expires, the IT giant has committed to a phase-out of hazardous chemicals from its electronic products.

CHENNAI, India — MV Esperanza, an iconic campaigning ship of the environmental group Greenpeace, docked at Chennai Port this morning for a week-long tour of the sub-continent to highlight the fragile beauty and vulnerability of India's coastal...

BANGALORE, India — Greenpeace today issued a public challenge to IT giant Wipro and its Chairperson Mr. Azim Premji, demanding that they become the first Indian electronics company to tackle the growing e-waste crisis (1). Greenpeace called on...

BANGALORE/AMSTERDAM, India — As a direct result of a sustained international 'Tox-Tech' campaign by Greenpeace, computer giant Dell has announced that it will remove key toxic chemicals from its PCs laptops and other products. The commitment from...

FRIGATE BAY, Saint Kitts and Nevis — As the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in St Kitts concluded its proceedings today, a peaceful protest carried out by Greenpeace was abruptly broken up by the authorities, who arrested ten...

FRIGATE BAY, Saint Kitts and Nevis — Greenpeace today breathed a sigh of relief as pro-whaling nations led by Japan failed to gain a majority during the opening day of the International Whaling Commission’s (IWC) annual meeting, in St Kitts.

NEW DELHI, India — Greenpeace campaign forces French Government to fully decontaminate Clemenceau. Leads to creation of EU wide ship breaking policy. For India: Clemenceau went back without any concrete answers; SS Norway comes in without any...

HYDERABAD, India — As a direct result of intense campaigning by Greenpeace and the Solar Generation during the 39th Annual Meeting of the Asian Development Bank, the ADB today announced a “pipeline of clean energy projects worth $1 billion by...

HYDERABAD, India — There’s something about obvious truths that make them invisible to those in power. For instance, the fact that the ADB refuses to see that by funding coal power projects, they are, in fact, funding climate change. That their...

Thai civil society groups challenged the Asian Development Bank (ADB)to stop funding socially and environmentally harmful projects at its upcoming Annual General Meeting.

HYDERABAD, India — A bowl of coal was presented by village leaders from three communities devastated by ADB-financed coal plants to the Bank President to denounce the ADB's continued funding of climate change through dirty coal power plants.

HYDERABAD, India — Borrowing words from a Buddhist tenet Greenpeace activists unfurled a banner that read: “There are only two mistakes one can make in fighting climate change: not starting, and not going all the way!”