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New Delhi: Jan 29, 2013: In a startling development an independent scientific analysis released by Greenpeace India exposed major flaws in the Genetically Modified (GM) corn biosafety assessment process by the regulatory bodies in India. ...

New Delhi, January 17, 2013: Greenpeace India welcomes the sustainability report launched by Bharti Airtel last week[1], terming it a stepping stone towards corporate sustainability. Greenpeace India and lakhs of mobile consumers across India had...

New Delhi: Jan 4, 2013: The Prime Minister in his address to the 100th Science Congress had urged everyone to engage in a structured debate analysis and enlightenment instead of faith, emotion and fear on the matters like genetically modified...

New Delhi, 24 December, 2012: Yesterday’s brutal crackdown on peaceful protestors was amplified when Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said that the protestors should maintain calm because of Russian President’s visit. [1]

New Delhi/Mumbai/Chennai, December 3, 2012: In a statement issued on the 28th anniversary of Bhopal gas tragedy, Greenpeace cautioned Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) of repeating mistakes that lead to mismanagement of Bhopal disaster. The...

Kurukshetra/New Delhi, October 18, 2012: Hundreds of farmers from Bharat Kisan Union carrying banners and monster corn placards reading “Monsanto GM corn Quit India” gathered together in a peaceful protest outside the Regional Research station of...

Commenting on success of the negotiations for the protection of marine biodiversity by UN members states at the biodiversity convention (COP11 – CBD) in Hyderabad Veronica Frank, from Greenpeace said: “It is not often at these large UN...

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,...

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,...

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...

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...

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.

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, 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.

Hyderabad/New Delhi, October 8, 2012: Hours after Jayanthi Natarajan, the Minster of the Environment and Forests, opened the United Nations conference on biodiversity in Hyderabad, Greenpeace activists unfurled a banner from the balcony of the...

New Delhi, June 18: Greenpeace India welcomes the formal recognition by the Government of India of the need to label Genetically Modified foods so as to give the consumer a choice. This single line decision by the Central Government was published...

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...

Greenpeace welcomes the Federation of Tamil Nadu Rice Mill Owners & Paddy – Rice Dealers Association's demand to safeguard rice, from being genetically modified (GM) and underscoring the value of biodiversity that is intrinsically linked with the...