Scenes like these are set to continue around Europe for many weeks.

Environmental activists are urging EU countries to increase spending on fighting climate change.

It all comes ahead of the UN Climate summit in Copenhagen in December.
 
On Thursday EU leaders met in Brussels to try to reach a deal on climate change financing.

The 27-country block is deadlocked on the issue as nations fight against the economic downturn.

One protester says it's all about political willingness.

[Farah Kabir, Action Aid Bangladesh]:
"We have seen them mobilise money when they needed to bail out the banks. They have committed 0.7 percent of their GDP for development assistance. That hasn't come forward. But we would like to see that they do pay up the climate debt."

Protesters set up these miniature houses in central Brussels to represent a migrant camp.

They're calling on developed nations to lead the way in cutting CO2 emissions.

One activist says it's going to be a make or break summit.

[Joris den Blanken, Director, Greenpeace EU Climate and Energy Policy]:
"I think it's really on a knife's edge. We have a couple of countries, UK but also Denmark, Netherlands really supporting to put money on the table. On the other hand, we have Germany, France, Poland still making trouble. And it's absolutely important that these countries come on board."

There were also demonstrations in Sweden.

Activists in Stockholm unloaded tonnes of German coal onto the street in front government offices.

They called on the country's leaders to close down coal plants across Europe run by Swedish state owned energy group Vattenfall.