Global Divestment Day – in pictures

BLOG: From Berlin to Mumbai to the Marshall Islands, photographers captured the weird and wonderful divestment day protests
Amsterdam
From Berlin to Mumbai to the Marshall Islands, photographers capture some weird and wonderful divestment day protests
Amsterdam
Amsterdam

By Sophie Yeo

On 13-14 February, citizens of every continent celebrated Global Divestment Day.

Campaigners wielded everything from glittery wigs to symbolic orange skins in an attempt to get their message across: the time has come to stop investing in fossil fuels.

Photos poured in from across the world of protests, street theatre and stock market invasions – to name but a few.

We’ve picked out the best of the bunch.


From Berlin hipsters to the Norwegian Sami, Europe demanded divestment.

Germany

Berlin
Berlin
Berlin
Berlin

Italy

The Vatican
The Vatican

Norway

Oslo
Oslo
Trondheim
Trondheim

Russia

St Petersburg
St Petersburg

Serbia

Belgrade
Belgrade

Sweden

Stockholm
Stockholm

Switzerland

Geneva
Geneva

UK

london
London
Oxford
Oxford
Edinburgh
Edinburgh

Ukraine

Kiev
Kiev

People in Oceania redefined style in the name of divestment.

Australia

Sydney
Sydney
Adelaide
Adelaide
Esperance
Esperance

Marshall Islands

marshall-islands
Majuro

New Zealand

Matauri Bay
Matauri Bay

Nelson Mandela turned up to support divestment in Africa.

Burkina Faso

Burkina

Democratic Republic of Congo

Kinshasa
Kinshasa

South Africa

Pretoria
Pretoria

Across Asia, campaigners gathered from Dubai to Tacloban to persuade their leaders to divest.

India

Mumbai
Mumbai

Indonesia

Jakarta
Jakarta

Nepal

Kathmandu
Kathmandu

Philippines

Tacloban
Tacloban

Taiwan

taiwan
Maoli

United Arab Emirates

Dubai
Dubai

Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh City
Ho Chi Minh City

Across the Americas, activists lit up the roads and braved the snow to call for divestment.

Canada

Vancouver
Vancouver
Toronto Stock Exchange
Toronto Stock Exchange

Mexico

Aguascalientes
Aguascalientes

USA

New York
New York
Waterford, California
Waterford, California
Madison, Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin
Middlebury, Vermont
Middlebury, Vermont
Harvard, Massachusetts
Harvard, Massachusetts

All photos courtesy of 350.org