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Hub | April 29, 2010 at 1:30

Facebook is building two massive new data centres to store all our information - with plans for many more. These data centres consume the same amount of electricity as tens of thousands of homes.

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  • CEA Validates Greenpeace..

CEA Validates Greenpeace Analysis

Press release | December 16, 2016 at 12:34

New Delhi | December 15, 2016| The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has released for public input the draft National Electricity Plan 2015.

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Greenpeace Welcomes Phasing Out Of Aging Coal Power Plants

Feature story | May 11, 2016 at 19:10

New Delhi 9th May 2016| Greenpeace India welcomed the Central Electricity Commission Chairman’s statement that indicated phasing out aging coal-fired power plants and called it a ‘step in the right direction’.

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National Clean Air Action Plan Is The Need Of The Hour: Greenpeace India

Feature story | May 16, 2016 at 16:13

New Delhi| May 12, 2016| The most recent report by the World Health Organisation (WHO), released today, has re-emphasised the immediate need to address the air pollution menace in several Indian cities such as, Gwalior, Allahabad, Patna and...

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.

Out Of Sight

Out Of Sight

Publication | May 23, 2016 at 16:54

This study emphasises on the urgent need to comply with the thermal power plant emission standards announced in December 2015 in order to solve the air pollution crisis faced by Delhi and many other parts of the country.

Support the forests

Support the forests

Action | February 15, 2011 at 17:00

Last year the environment and forest ministry defined regions rich in forest cover and biodiversity as No-Go areas for mining. The coal ministry wants the government to scrap this classification. These No-Go areas are among the last remaining...

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Tell Pranab Mukherjee to hold a public consultation before deciding on the fate of our forests.

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  • Point of No Return in pictures
Point of No Return in pictures

Point of No Return in pictures

Feature story | January 22, 2013 at 19:30

The world is quickly reaching a point of no return for preventing the worst impacts of climate change. Continuing on the current course will make it difficult, if not impossible, to prevent the widespread and catastrophic impacts of climate...

Coal-water conflict

Hub | May 15, 2013 at 20:14

Maharashtra's agricultural hinterland – especially Marathwada and Vidarbha – have been facing severe water crisis year after year. Issues of debts, crop failure, bad monsoon etc, have historically wreaked havoc on the farmers' livelihoods and...

Delhi can switch-on the sun

Hub | April 17, 2013 at 13:29

With renewable energy, Delhi can produce its own energy. It will not have to depend on coal which is destroying forests and and pollution by it is responsible for killing people. Thermal power plants are using and polluting water which could have...

  • Clean our cloud - Act now
Clean our cloud - Act now

Clean our cloud - Act now

Action | April 17, 2012 at 21:30

Apple, Amazon and Microsoft all use asthma-inducing, climate destroying coal to power the "cloud" that stores your emails, photos, music and videos. Take action now & tell these companies to clean the cloud.

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Nothing momentous in the Modi-Obama statement on climate change

Feature story | January 25, 2015 at 20:13

Greenpeace India expressed disappointment at the joint announcement by Prime Minister Modi and President Obama as it didn’t go beyond rhetoric and the usual platitudes.

Get Facebook to unfriend coal

Action | February 8, 2011 at 16:54

Facebook plans to start a new data center in Oregon, USA, which will be powered by coal. The same coal which threatens our forests, wildlife and the entire environment. Since last year, people from all across the world have been asking Facebook...

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Ask Mark Zuckerberg to take the pledge

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  • World’s biggest coal..

World’s biggest coal company Shenhua to stop exploiting groundwater in China

Press release | April 10, 2014 at 11:42

Beijing, April 9, 2014: The Shenhua Group, the world's biggest coal producer by volume, is to stop extracting groundwater for their flagship coal-to-liquid project in Inner Mongolia's Ordos - an area struggling with severe water shortage...

Send the Coal Minister a Message

Send the Coal Minister a Message

Action | November 8, 2010 at 17:22

Last year the environment and forest ministry defined regions rich in forest cover and biodiversity as No-Go areas for mining. The coal ministry wants the government to scrap this classification. These No-Go areas are among the last remaining...

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Tell the government that forests are a NO GO area

Support the forests

Support the forests

Action | February 15, 2011 at 17:00

Last year the environment and forest ministry defined regions rich in forest cover and biodiversity as No-Go areas for mining. The coal ministry wants the government to scrap this classification. These No-Go areas are among the last remaining...

I Support

Tell Pranab Mukherjee to hold a public consultation before deciding on the fate of our forests.

Support the forests

Support the forests

Action | November 8, 2010 at 17:22

Last year the environment and forest ministry defined regions rich in forest cover and biodiversity as No-Go areas for mining. The coal ministry wants the government to scrap this classification. These No-Go areas are among the last remaining...

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Tell the government that forests are a NO GO area

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Greenpeace Campaigner addresses British MPs via Skype

Press release | January 14, 2015 at 20:09

New Delhi, 14 January 2015: Greenpeace India campaigner, Priya Pillai stuck to her commitment of taking the voices of struggle from Mahan to a global stage and addressed a gathering of British Parliamentarians at the Parliament in London today.

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Greenpeace employee “Offloaded” at Delhi Airport: NGO demands explanation from the...

Press release | January 11, 2015 at 15:13

New Delhi, 11 January 2015: In yet another incident of government clampdown on Greenpeace India, Priya Pillai, Senior Campaigner with the organisation was stopped at the New Delhi airport, this morning by the immigration office and denied to get...

Dirty data letter simple

Action | April 17, 2012 at 19:03

Is your data being powered by coal? Let your providers know you want your memory kept green!

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Power for the People

Publication | August 5, 2014 at 12:10

The Mahan forests are a contiguous patch extending over about 500 sq km in the Waidhan and East Sarai Ranges of Singrauli, Madhya Pradesh’s eastern most district. Singrauli is a relatively new district, carved out of the neighbouring Sidhi in...

Annual Report 2012

Publication | November 21, 2013 at 15:38

Greenpeace is a global organisation that uses non-violent direct action to tackle the most crucial threats to our planet's biodiversity and environment.

How coal mining is trashing tigerland

How coal mining is trashing tigerland

Publication | August 1, 2012 at 18:35

This report makes the case that the biggest threat to the long term survival of the Royal Bengal Tiger in its largest contiguous landscape- Central India- has been overlooked by the Indian government and its administrative machinery. That threat...

The true cost of coal

The true cost of coal

Publication | January 10, 2012 at 14:16

Tonnes of coal is burnt to give us electricity. The extraction of this coal leaves behind a long trail of destruction. Soon, we will run out of this resource as well.

Business meeting agenda for RE conference

Publication | May 14, 2012 at 20:00

The international business conference on 15th May at Hotel Maurya, Patna, Bihar focuses specifically on the issue of DRE and energy access. The conference intends to bring global perspectives on driving investment and various other frameworks...

Hiding behind the poor presentation

Publication | November 13, 2007 at 5:30

The powerpoint presentation accompanying the release of Hiding behind the poor, a report from Greenpeace on climate injustice

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Greenpeace to Coal Minister: Stop destroying forests for coal

Press release | November 30, 2011 at 14:29

New Delhi, November 30, 2011: Greenpeace activists dressed as tigers today blocked the gates of Shastri Bhawan, which houses the Ministry of Coal, demanding that forests in Central India be saved from coal mining. 20 life size tigers were...

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Greenpeace reminds Apple of its professed sustainability commitment

Press release | May 8, 2012 at 18:42

Bengaluru, 8th May 2012– Greenpeace activists today installed a billboard in front of the Indian head office of Apple here in Bengaluru asking the company to ‘Clean our Cloud’. The activists along with Apple customers urged the head of Apple...

Greenpeace Activists take Go Solar message to the Temple of the Sun in Machu Pichu as Climate Summit begins in Lima

Greenpeace Activists take Go Solar message to the Temple of the Sun in Machu Pichu as...

Feature story | December 1, 2014 at 19:00

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Day three of coal plant protest

Day three of coal plant protest

Feature story | October 4, 2007 at 5:30

BOXBERG, Germany — Since Monday, activists have taken action against the construction site for the Boxberg new coal-fired power plant in eastern Germany. Their demand is simple; the owner company, Vattenfall, must stop building dirty coal plants...

Greenpeace employee banned from leaving India on government orders. No official...

Feature story | January 11, 2015 at 16:06

New Delhi, 11 January 2015: In yet another attempt to muzzle Greenpeace India, Priya Pillai, Senior Campaigner with the organisation was stopped at New Delhi airport this morning by the immigration office and denied to get onboard her flight to...

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Experts urge Government to address humanitarian crisis in Sundarbans

Experts urge Government to address humanitarian crisis in Sundarbans

Press release | July 17, 2009 at 15:52

KOLKATA, India — In view of the massive humanitarian crisis in the aftermath of cyclone Aila in the Sunderbans, experts from the field of oceanography and social science, representatives from a local voluntary group and Greenpeace demanded...

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Climate negotiators back out again in Bonn

Climate negotiators back out again in Bonn

Feature story | April 15, 2009 at 5:30

BONN, Germany — Another round of climate talks is over, this time in Bonn, Germany. Once again negotiators are leaving without a plan or having left any money on the table to tackle climate change.

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  • Taking global action..
Taking global action against global warming

Taking global action against global warming

Feature story | December 7, 2005 at 18:19

MONTREAL, Canada — From meeting rooms in Montreal to coal-fired power plants in Germany and Thailand to ports hosting shiploads of illegal nuclear waste, Greenpeace has been in action against global warming around the world in the last two weeks.

Countering Coal

Countering Coal

Publication | October 15, 2012 at 16:30

This report exposes the environmental damage and human rights violations against tribal and other forest dwellers in the forests of Singrauli in Madhya Pradesh, that are under threat from the Indian government’s massive coal expansion programme.

Australian coal: the view from India

Australian coal: the view from India

Feature story | April 21, 2013 at 6:54

My name is Arpana Udupa, Climate and Energy Campaigner, Greenpeace India. I’m on board the Rainbow Warrior, travelling up the Queensland coast.

Hiding behind the poor

Publication | November 12, 2007 at 5:30

So far the Indian government has maintained that our average per capita CO2 emissions are low compared to that of Europe and the US and for this reason India should be excluded from emissions reductions in order to drive development through the...

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  • Civil society says mandate..

Civil society says mandate of Group of Ministers is undemocratic, shrouded in secrecy

Press release | March 16, 2011 at 13:44

New Delhi, March 16, 2011: Civil society groups (mines, minerals & People, Greenpeace, Wildlife Protection Society of India and Lawyers Initiative for Forests and Environment) today flayed the Group of Ministers on coal mining and other...

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  • New Greenpeace study..

New Greenpeace study reveals dirty energy behind internet’s and wireless...

Press release | April 25, 2011 at 12:54

Despite some leadership by Yahoo!, Akamai, and Google, lack of transparency masks continued reliance on coal by Facebook and others to power the growth of cloud computing.

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Government panel writes off forests for coal mining: Greenpeace

Press release | August 1, 2011 at 14:11

New Delhi, 29th July, 2011: Reacting to the recommendations by the government panel appointed by the Group of Ministers debating the issue of ‘No Go’, Greenpeace Policy Officer Priya Pillai said, “This recommendation is exactly what the PMO...

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  • Greenpeace challenges GVK..

Greenpeace challenges GVK on disclosure

Press release | June 12, 2012 at 18:34

Mumbai, 12 June 2012: Greenpeace has lodged a complaint against GVK with the Securities and Exchange Board of India, the National Stock Exchange of India and the Bombay Stock Exchange regarding its massive proposed Alpha coal project in Australia...

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  • Cluster of thermal power..

Cluster of thermal power plants may escalate Vidarbha's existing agrarian crisis:...

Press release | August 7, 2012 at 17:07

New Delhi, 7th August 2012: In the backdrop of a drought looming over the country, a new report (1) released by Greenpeace has found that large clusters of coal fired power plants proposed in Vidarbha may bring down the future availability of...

Undermining Tadoba's Tigers

Publication | January 9, 2012 at 18:00

This report shows that Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) is fast becoming an isolated enclave, with landscape connectivity to neighbouring forest areas being interrupted by industrial projects, primarily coal mines.

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  • Filmstar and Greenpeace..

Filmstar and Greenpeace activists detained in a peaceful protest at Charminar

Press release | October 8, 2012 at 19:30

Hyderabad, October 8, 2012: Famous film personality, Amla Akkineni and three Greenpeace activists were detained by the local police while protesting against Indian government's role in forest destruction, today at Charminar.

Study of Impact of the Presidential Directive to Coal India

Publication | October 4, 2012 at 14:09

Greenpeace commissioned Equitorials, a financial research firm, to do an independent analysis of the financial impact of signing Fuel Supply Agreements(FSA) on Coal India Limited. This analysis has been done in the context of the Presidential...

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Greenpeace: Indian Government must stop the destruction of vital biodiversity

Press release | October 10, 2012 at 22:24

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...

Victory! Facebook 'friends' renewable energy

Victory! Facebook 'friends' renewable energy

Feature story | December 15, 2011 at 20:30

After 20 months of mobilising, agitating and negotiating to green Facebook, the Internet giant has today announced its goal to run on clean, renewable energy. More than 700,000 people from all over the world joined to make this victory possible!

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  • Media Advisory on GO and NO..

Media Advisory on GO and NO GO Zones

Press release | February 4, 2011 at 13:19

February 4, 2011, Bangalore: It has been shocking to see the immense pressure that has been developing from various quarters to reduce the NO GO forest zones to allow coal mining. MoEF has been succumbing to the pressure from the various...

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Facebook Users Break Guinness World Record and Tell The Social Networking Giant To...

Press release | April 14, 2011 at 12:36

SAN FRANCISCO --13 APRIL 2011 – Eleven hours into their attempt, tens of thousands of Facebook users around the world established a Guinness World Record for the most comments on a Facebook post in 24 hours.(1) The Facebook users joined with...

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Decentralised renewable energy holds the key to rural electrification

Press release | July 5, 2011 at 16:30

New Delhi, 1st July 2011: With centre’s ambitious Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana failing to provide quality electricity access to rural India, at a National Consultation organised by Greenpeace, energy experts, policy makers and civil...

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