Author: Global Greengrants Fund

India: Bhopal — ‘The World’s Worst Industrial Disaster’

On December 3, 1984, thousands of people in Bhopal, India, were gassed to death after a catastrophic chemical leak at a Union Carbide pesticide plant. According to the Council for Scientific & Industrial Research, New Delhi, more than 27 tons of methyl isocyanate and other deadly gases “turned the city into a gas chamber.” The […]

Greengrants Featured in the New York Times

Romanian grantee Alburnus Maior and Global Greengrants Fund featured on the front page of the Business Section of the New York Times on January 3, 2007, regarding the struggle of gold mining in a Transylvanian village.

Update: Another Victory in New Caledonia

Environmental activists gained a further victory in New Caledonia when a French court ordered a halt to construction of the multi-billion dollar Goro nickel mine.

Campaigning Against “Ship breaking” in India

Greengrants’ India Coordinator Madhumita Dutta’s work on the social and environmental costs of “ship breaking” in India was profiled in the December 1, 2006 issue of Lloyd’s List.

Skoll Foundation Recognizes Health Care Without Harm

Health Care Without Harm is profiled in latest Skoll Foundation update.

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