Greenpeace activists scale EU building, unfurl live banner in protest at deforestation

Greenpeace scale the Europa building in Brussels, Belgium, 17 March 2022. - Copyright Euronews

By Euronews

Published on 17/03/2022 - 19:30•Updated 21/03/2022 - 12:25

The bloc's environment ministers were meeting in Brussels to discuss deforestation-free imports.

Greenpeace often goes big when it comes to protests, and it was no different in Brussels on Thursday.

Climbers from the organisation scaled the EU Council's Europa building -- where environment ministers from the 27 member states were meeting to discuss deforestation-free imports -- placing a banner highlighting how many hectares of forest were destroyed as talks went on.