Home Civil Society Images: Climate change advocacy brings colour, vibrancy to SkyCity protest Civil SocietyClimateEnvironmentGalleryPacific ReportNew Zealand Images: Climate change advocacy brings colour, vibrancy to SkyCity protest By Del Abcede - March 21, 2016 941 0 Share on Facebook Tweet on Twitter tweet Asia Pacific Report photographer Del Abcede captures some colourful and poignant moments at today’s SkyCity climate change protest against the New Zealand Petroleum Conference. 1 of 29 1. Anti-TPPA advocate Barry Coates and former Greenpeace NZ executive director Bunny McDiarmid doing their bit at SkyCity today. 2. Barry Coates and Bunny McDiarmid at SkyCity today. 3. All the way from Cape Reinga for the climate change protest. 4. Protesting outside SkyCity. 5. A family outside SkyCity. 6. Another family at SkyCity. 7. Protesting inside SkyCity. 8. Protesting inside SkyCity. 9. Protesting inside Sky City. 10. One of the two sit-ins inside SkyCity. 11. Sit-in inside SkyCity. 12. Amnesty International's Margaret Taylor and another climate change protester. 13. A Maori Television crew getting footage. 14. A Maori Television crew getting their interviews. 15. Unitec's A/Professor Evangelia Papoutsaki among the climate change advocates. 16. Pavement graffiti - "the planet before profit". 17. Message from the tangata whenua. 18. A colourful protest headdress. 19. A sit-in outside SkyCity. 20. A message from the wash line - "What future is John Key fuelling?". 21. Police marshalling their reinforcements. 22. A sit-in outside SkyCity. 23. Another angle on the sit-in. 24. What's the difference between an oil spill and a solar spoil? Answer: Moral bankruptcy. 25. Another pavement message for the oil kings - "Say 'kahore'". 26. What next for the boys - and girls - in blue? 27. What next?: Global devastation. 28. Climate change protesters at SkyCity. 29. Greenepeace NZ's Russel Norman speaks to the climate change committed. 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