Sustainability and Justice in the High Seas
<p>Greenpeace Southeast Asia urged Philippine-based tuna canneries to step up improvements in their systems and business practices to address issues on labor rights, sustainability, and traceable produce
<p>Greenpeace Southeast Asia urged Philippine-based tuna canneries to step up improvements in their systems and business practices to address issues on labor rights, sustainability, and traceable produce
Activists agitating for the relocation of the Tata Group's Dhamra project to save the Olive Ridley turtles It was a sight to behold at the seafront near Mumbai Port Trust garden, opposite Bakhtawar building at Colaba. Volunteers from Greenpeace lit thousands of candles there, in a bid to attract the attention of the occupant of the sea-facing flat number 163 of the Bakhtawar building, the Tata Group Chairman, Ratan Tata.
Private security company Beckett Brown International (bbi) spied on Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and other big environmental organizations in the late 1990s according to documents obtained
For the average Indian, Tata stands for ethics, responsibility and environmental consciousness. As a corporate, Tata Steel boasts of a stringent code of environmental conduct. However, there are paradoxes galore in Tata's social and environmental record, including its ventures in Kalinga Nagar, Singur, Sukhinda, Mithapur and Bhopal. The port at Dhamra, a joint venture between Tata Steel and Larsen &Toubro, will be the latest in that list unless the company puts its environmental theory into practice before it is too late.
Singer Rabbi today joined the Greenpeace activists for highlighting the urgency of creating a National Climate Action plan (NCAP) that focuses on preventing climate change. Rabbi said, "Everything we do can either hurt or save climate and our future depends on the choices we make. One cannot afford to watch climate change. We cannot live in our cocoon-gated colonies, we need to take a stand on climate change.' The Greenpeace activists have occupied prime real estate and set up a migrant colony 35-ft above Delhi-Noida toll bridge.
It was supposed to prevent blindness and death from vitamin A deficiency in millions of children. But almost a decade after its invention, golden rice is still stuck in the lab.
Brussels Blog (Andrew Bounds): There has been much talk of the Franco-German motor that has traditionally propelled the European Union breaking down recently. So the cancellation of a meeting recently between the two countries to discuss proposals to cut pollution from cars led to plenty of puns.
on april 23, the Delhi High Court will hear a case that is being dubbed as a "conflict between commercial interests and public health'. There are two main players
<B>February 2006: </B>Divya Raghunandan of Greenpeace files RTI application with Department of Biotechnology (DBT), seeking data on gm plants <br><br> <B>March 2006: </B>DBT gives information on trial sites; says rest of the data is confidential and proprietary and cannot be shared<br><br> <B>April 2006:</B> Raghunandan goes to DBT's Appellate Authority for help<br>
Amidst protests, queen Elizabeth ii officially opened Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 on March 14. The Queen, who had opened first passenger terminal at Heathrow in 1955, described it as "a 21st
Greenpeace Warns On Canada's Northern Forests CANADA: April 11, 2008 VANCOUVER - Greenpeace warned on Thursday that Canada's logging practices threaten to turn the country's vast northern forest into a source of global warming, but the forestry industry says it is already taking steps to fight climate change. Logging and other development in the boreal forest release the carbon that the trees have trapped from the atmosphere over decades, potentially producing more greenhouse gases than from burning fossil fuels, the environmental group charged in a new report.