Durban - Seven Greenpeace campaigners were arrested on the sidelines of the UN climate conference on Monday as they protested against corporate responsibility for carbon emissions.
The six were detained as they tried to hang a banner reading "Listen to the People, not the Polluters" at a Durban hotel where a "Global Business Day", hosted by business organisations, was taking place.
The protest aimed at a so-called "Dirty Dozen" corporations which Greenpeace says are pulling political strings to stifle progress toward a global climate deal. Read more...
The 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 7th Session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties (CMP7) to the Kyoto Protocol, are now in progress in the sunny city of Durban, South Africa.
Greenpeace activists arrested at COP 17
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