The annual gathering of some of the world’s most powerful political and corporate figures is underway as Switzerland hosts the World Economic Forum in Davos. Scores of protesters have made the trip to protest corporate greed. On Wednesday, Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo took part in a protest in Davos.

Kumi Naidoo: “All of our democracies and all have been captured, to a large extent, in many, many countries, by corporate power, that, in fact—should corporations have a voice about public life? Yes. Should they have the level and depth of voice that they have now? Absolutely not. And we need to put a leash—that’s the message of this campaign—on corporations for them to be more accountable, for them to be better global citizens.”

Dozens of Occupy protesters have also set up an igloo encampment in the sub-zero temperatures near the summit.

Ed Sutton: “They come together each year to make these decisions with enormous consequences for the entire world, and they don’t feel it’s necessary to consult with the vast majority of people who inhabit the world. There’s seven billion people on the planet that don’t have any kind of a say in what they’re doing. And we just find that it’s a personification of the fact that free market capitalism and democracy don’t really fit together. And that’s just the fundamental thrust of the Occupy movement in general.”