India and Climate Change: The Devastating Consequences
The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change has laid out devastating scenarios that will result from global warming in India. Read an article by a grantee that calls for action on the issue.
Climate Change: Alternative Energy Promotion
Many of our grantees are in locations where there is little inclination to switch from outdated, dirty fossil fuel generators to cleaner, alternative energy sources. In addition to raising awareness of the benefits of alternative energy, several grantees have also been instrumental in creating demonstration and experimental alternative wind and solar energy systems.
‘Climate Crusader’ in India
Grantee Ranjan Panda, head of the Indian conservation organization MASS, is heralded as a climate crusader for his work addressing desertification in Orissa.
Sunita Narain and India’s Center for Science and Environment Profiled in Nature
A previous Greengrants grantee, the Center for Science and Environment, has been instrumental in achieving cleaner air and water in Delhi. Read more in Nature’s February 15, 2007 Issue.
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 […]