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Greenpeace activists hold up signs outside the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, urging Nicolas Sarkozy to reverse the Sarkozy-Merkel car deal. The proposed Franco-German deal would effectively postpone and weaken the long-standing aim of limiting average emissions from cars to 120g CO2/km by another three years.
In a dizzying action above the Luxembourg skyline Greenpeace activists unfurl a series of banners on a crane opposite the Environment Council which is meeting to discuss the EU response to global warming. The banners accuse the German car industry, led by Volkswagen, BMW and Mercedes of 'Driving Climate Change'.
The car industry is still trapped in the "dinosaur dynamic" of building ever-faster and increasingly powerful gas-guzzlers at the expense of the climate.
Activists from Greenpeace project slogans such as "Nuclear Undermines Climate Protection" and "Energy [R]evolution Now!" over the panorama with Prague Castle in the background. The action is to draw attention to the risk
of weakening of European nuclear safety standards and seriously biased discussion in advance of today's opening of the second meeting of the European Nuclear Energy Forum.
Greenpeace activists parody French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel as bride and groom on the Champs Elysée in Paris. With this parody wedding, Greenpeace is highlighting the danger that the Franco-German partnership will result in very weak European regulations. To fight climate change, the European Union must reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, especially in the transport sector.
