Activists in chains and armlocks blockade the gates of the Surya Light bulb manufacturing unit in Kashipur, Uttaranchal - to call for a shift in production from incandescent lightbulbs to energy saving CFLs.
Over the past two weeks, our India office has been ramping up their climate change campaign with a series of protests set to the backdrop of massive flooding across South Asia.
In India, 20 million people are said to be affected by the recent floods, along with another 8 million in Bangladesh and 300,000 in Nepal. Increased flooding and drought from climate change will also hurt agricultural production, especially among subsistence farmers.
"India could lose 125 million tons of its rain fed cereal production -- equivalent to 18 percent of its total production," UN Food and Agriculture Organization Director-General Jacques Diouf said yesterday (August 7). -Greenepeace
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