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Press Release- Boom and Bust Report 2019
New coal plants shrink globally, but GoI continues to approve new proposals, despite pollution and deforestation impacts New Delhi, Thursday, March 28, 2019— For the third year in a row,…
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Khurja Coal Plant Approval: A step back in tackling Air Pollution and providing affordable electricity
Khurja coal plant approval: a step back in tackling air pollution and providing affordable electricity New Delhi | Thurs March 7th, 2019 : Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the…
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Attempt to Murder Gurgaon
Gurgaon is one of the most polluted cities in India, with only 3 days of clean air in 2018. Now a new amendment will make 20,000 acres of Aravalli forest in Gurgaon and Faridabad open for construction. Why?
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“NCAP a Step Forward With Less Ambition” Greenpeace India
New Delhi | 10th January 2019 | The Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change announced the much anticipated National Clean Air Programme to fight air pollution on Thursday. In…
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Government crackdown forces Greenpeace India to cut back work on climate change
Greenpeace India will soon have to reduce to a core strength of twenty to twenty five people across the country, as a direct result of the Enforcement Directorate’s arbitrary freezing of Greenpeace India’s accounts.
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Institutional investors lose billions as Indian coal equities underperform market
Mumbai, December 20, 2018: New analysis (1) shows that major Indian and international equity investors have seen their holdings in key Indian coal mining and coal-based power companies underperform the…
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NCAP must have sectoral targets & interim milestones; says Greenpeace India
NCAP announcement will be a big achievement since not a single monitored location in the country complies with safe limits prescribed by WHO for air pollution and more than 80% locations registering pollution levels beyond Indian standards, making air pollution a national health emergency.
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You cannot muzzle dissent in a democracy
10th December 2018 marked 70 years since United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights which includes the right to freedom of speech, stating that “Everyone has the right to freedom…
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76000 premature deaths due to Non-Compliance of Emission Standard for Coal Based Power Plants in India
New Delhi 7th December 2018| On the third anniversary of notification and one year since the deadline lapsed for implementing the emission standards for coal based power plants, Greenpeace analysis…
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Karnataka HC grants partial relief to Greenpeace India; But ED harassment continues on environmental watchdog
Enforcement Directorate is dragging its feet on the investigation, forcing the organisation to shrink and minimise its work on climate change in India