A giant banner in Türkiye ahead of UN climate talks COP31, a protest for forest protection at IKEA in Sweden, and a floating banner calling for environmental protections in the Canary Islands, here are a few of our favourite images from Greenpeace work around the world this week.
Türkiye – Greenpeace Türkiye displayed a giant banner on the Konyaaltı Beach in Antalya ahead of the UN climate talks COP31. The 31st UN Climate Conference, COP31, takes place in Antalya, Türkiye from 9-20 November 2026. Greenpeace is at the COP to hold governments to account in pursuit of an accelerated just, orderly and equitable transition away from fossil fuels.
Sweden- Greenpeace activists hang a banner on the IKEA sign in Helsingborg. Below the IKEA logo, they hang a banner with the text: "Forests of high conservation value cannot be reassembled" Greenpeace demands that IKEA stop purchasing timber from forests that need to be protected.
Canary Islands – Floating Banner in Tenerife Bearing the Slogan "Hands Off Teno-Rasca". Activists from environmental and land-conservation organisations have called for a halt to tourism projects that threaten this protected area and for efforts to restore both terrestrial and marine ecosystems.
Spain – Greenpeace Spain has renamed a New Zealand trawler-currently under construction at the Marín shipyard (Pontevedra)-"Ocean Killer" (formerly "Voyager"). The action aims to highlight the severe damage such vessels cause to the seabed and to call for an end to bottom trawling. Simultaneously, other activists placed a sign at the offices of the company Talley's to denounce its destructive fishing practices, which include operations within protected areas.
Australia – Press conference against AI Data Centres with local organisations in Darwin, Australia. Greenpeace Australia Pacific is calling for a moratorium on AI data centres until proper regulations that protect our people and planet are put in place.
UK – Greenpeace UK successfully place giant boulders onto the seabed in the Southern North Sea – the UK's most bottom-trawled Marine Protected Area – forming an underwater barrier to prevent this destructive fishing method.
Located off England's east coast, the targeted stretch sits within a so-called Marine Protected Area (MPA), which was created specifically to protect harbour porpoises.
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