by David Sassoon, from Solve Climate

Photographers Phillipe Reynaers and Eric de Mildt shot these pictures today of a protest in Belgium which was organized by Greenpeace to pressure EU finance Ministers to help developing nations tackle climate change. It was yet another example of the growing frequency of civil disobedience in support of climate action.

 

Last week in the Washington, D.C., thousands of protesters risked arrest to surround the coal-burning power plant that supplies Congress with electricity in the largest act of civil disobedience in support of climate action on US soil. The capital’s police force declined to make any arrests.

Police in Brussels were not as restrained in the face of hundreds of Greenpeace activists from across Europe who blocked the exits of the building where EU finance ministers were meeting. 

Activists displayed banners in several languages asking EU politicians to “Save the Climate” and “Bail out the Planet.” They