1993 - Greenpeace banner hanging in protest at a request made by the French driftnet fishing industry to allow French vessels to fish with nets longer than allowed by EC regulations, Brussels, Belgium.

Obama/Lula banner in Washington.

The Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru departs from its home port of Innoshima in Hiroshima, western Japan November 17, 2008. This 22nd research whaling expedition to the Southern Ocean is supported by a roughly estimated total 1.2 billion yen...

Activists hang a banner from the 269 metre high DDA building in New Delhi protesting against climate change. They are asking for a phasing out of inefficient light bulbs in India by 2010.

Radioactive waste is one more reason why nuclear power is not an answer to climate change.

Banner on the Statue of Liberty in New York commemorating 40th anniversary of Hiroshima bombing.

An aerial view of a Greenpeace banner hung on a 300-metre-high smoke stack at the power plant Prunerov II, owned by the CEZ state-run power utility. Greenpeace activists unfold a banner saying “Stop CO2."

Activists hang a banner on a lighthouse in the river Weser demanding the Wadden Sea be made into a UNESCO world heritage site - something the Mayor of Hamburg has been attempting to block.