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...

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...

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

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.

Oil-smudged Greenpeace activists awaited the arrival in Brussels of 18 CEOs from some of the world’s biggest oil companies for a meeting today with EU energy commissioner Günther Oettinger and environment commissioner Janez Potočnik to discuss...

DELHI, India — As the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) continues to dither in making concrete move towards getting mandatory fuel efficiency standards for India, Greenpeace "climate cops doubling up as postmen, today delivered 22,000 petitions...

NEW DELHI, India — The Greenpeace Climate Patrol team today erected a Climate Hazard Information signpost in front of the Philips Lighting head quarters at Gurgaon. The signpost is on the lines of the Hazardous Waste signs that every production...

MUMBAI, India — Greenpeace today released ‘The Greenpeace Guide to Climate Safe Lighting’ [1], a ranking guide for the Indian lighting industry, naming and shaming those manufacturers whose incandescent bulbs are responsible for the highest...

NEW DELHI, India — Greenpeace today launched a petition signing drive aimed at collecting one million signatures to call on the Union Government to implement a ban on inefficient light bulbs in the country by the year 2010. Attended by several...

NEW DELHI, India — Greenpeace welcomed the Government’s ambitious Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM), which was released today, a few days before the Climate summit at Copenhagen.

NEW DELHI, India — School children, joined Greenpeace activists to tell Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State, before she left India, that mere talk isn’t enough to avert a climate catastrophe. With photographs and messages from children, women...

VARANASI, India — On the eve of the Global Day of Action on Climate Greenpeace highlighted the threat from global warming to the Ganges and called for an Energy [R]evolution[i] to save the iconic river from drying up. A flotilla of local boats...

NEW DELHI, India — Greenpeace activists today registered their protest against the inaction of the Power Ministry in announcing the Bachat Lamp Yojana , a measure to address the global crisis of climate change and the energy crisis in the country.

NEW DELHI, India — Commuters around Connaught Place in New Delhi witnessed an unusual New Year's greeting - giant cards wishing the Prime Minister a Happy New Year spread out at different locations on the road. The message on the cards reminded...

BANGALORE, India — Greenpeace today released a survey based report named “hiding behind the poor” which reveals that the highest income group in India, constituting merely 1% of the population emits four and a half times as much CO2 as the lowest...

KOLKATA, India — Residents of Sagar Island today joined hands with Greenpeace to start a Mangrove planting drive. An initiative led by Professor Sugata Hazra from Jadavapur University*, this will arrest the rate of coastal erosion due to Global...

NEW DELHI, India — Greenpeace today criticized the power ministry's decision to not introduce a legislation to ban the light bulb in India by 2010. Greenpeace was reacting to the letter issued by the ministry in response to Greenpeace's proposal...

KASHIPUR/NEW DELHI, India — Four months after its launch, Greenpeace's Ban the Bulb campaign took major action today against Surya Roshni, a leading light bulb manufacturer. Close to hundred Greenpeace activists from around the country prevented...

MUMBAI, India — Greenpeace today highlighted the threat Mumbai faces from rising sea levels as a result of global warming by floating a massive life ring, 66 ft in diameter, with a call to 'Ban the Bulb' and reduce India's CO2 emissions by 55...

MYSORE, India — Greenpeace will today submit a proposal for energy efficient and climate friendly lighting to the Mysore palace. To create the only one of its kind of illumination in the world, the Mysore palace uses approximately 96,000 ordinary...

MUMBAI, India — Greenpeace warned that Mumbai will remain unprepared and vulnerable to climate related chaos, if it didn't acknowledge climate change and take steps to fight it. Even as the city took stock of its capacity to stay afloat through...

NEW DELHI, India — Greenpeace today exposed the energy wastage due to leakage from a random selection of prominent buildings across the national and financial capital in a “technovative” manner. Thermographic (temperature sensitive) images taken...

'CUT CO2' lit up the face of the Le Meridien–New Delhi, in the heart of India's capital, calling for urgent action to fight climate change - the biggest environmental threat facing the world today. This was part of Greenpeace’ campaign, supported...

1) According to the USEPA replacing an incandescent bulb with a CFL will reduce the amount of mercury released into the environment from 13.6 mg to 8.3 mg over the lifetime of the CFL 2) The way forward is a "top-runner" legislation to improve...

KOLKATA, India — Greenpeace activists today unfurled a banner with the message Stop Climate Change- Philips Ban the Bulb! at the Annual General Meeting of Philips asking the company to phase out the manufacture and sale of the incandescent light...

NEW DELHI, India — Greenpeace today launched a national campaign calling for a phase out of inefficient light bulbs in India by 2010. Four Greenpeace activists suspended themselves from the top of the 269 feet high Vikas Minar building at the...

Greenpeace today presented the report 'Energy [R]evolution: A sustainable Energy Outlook for India' to Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh at his residence. The report provides a practical blueprint for stabilising India’s carbon emissions at...

MUMBAI, India — Two Greenpeace activists today suspended themselves from the roof of the Maharashtra State Electricity Board building at Bandra East, unfurling a huge banner that read ‘More CFLs, No More Coal’. Greenpeace is demanding that the...

MUMBAI, India — Hundreds of Mumbaikars gathered at Juhu beach on Sunday to form a giant 8,000 sq. ft. human art design that spelled the slogan ‘Switch for Mumbai’ on the sand. This is part of the ongoing Greenpeace campaign promoting energy...

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.

NEW DELHI, India — On the eve of the winter parliament session, more than 100 farmers and young people representing all eleven districts in Vidarbha, held a protest at the doorstep of the Ministry of Social Justice to highlight the injustice of...