Hyderabad, October 17, 2012: On the eve of the high level segment meetings at the UN conference on biodiversity (COP 11) in Hyderabad that will see heads of state decide on measures to safeguard the oceans and wildlife that inhabit them,...

August 21st 2012, New Delhi: With preparations for the upcoming Convention on Biological Diversity in full swing at the Ministry of Environment at Forests, Mr M F Farooqui, special director and national focal point for the CBD, released...

Commenting on the speech by the Indian Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, as he inaugurated the high-level segment of the U.N summit on biodiversity, in Hyderabad, Vinuta Gopal, Head of Climate and Energy Campaign, Greenpeace India said,...

Hyderabad/New Delhi, October 8, 2012, On the eve of a major international conference on biodiversity, hosted by the Indian Government, Greenpeace is demanding that the Indian government re-look its massive expansion of coal mining in forest areas...

Hyderabad/New Delhi, October 15, 2012: Today at the world’s largest conference on biodiversity in Hyderabad India, Kalpavriksh and Greenpeace released a new report exposing a catalogue of environmental damage and human rights violations against...

October 16, Hyderabad: Today, as Indian Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh prepared for his key note speech to nearly 200 world politicians and international dignitaries at the UN’s Convention on Biodiversity, three Greenpeace activists...

August 29th, 2012, Nagpur: India is hosting the 11th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in October this year to discuss conservation of biodiversity. “It is ironical that my government, which is writing...

In a side event organized at CBD COP at Hyderabad on 12th October, a number of NGOs and Movement groups came together to decry adverse and debilitating impact of coal mining on the biodiversity and livelihoods of the people.