Kumi Naidoo Naidoo spent four days in a Greenlandic prison after scaling an oil platform owned by Cairn Energy, as part of Greenpeace's "Go Beyond Oil" campaign. He was deported to Denmark where he spent a short time in Danish custody before being released in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He has been a vocal critic of the failure of bodies like the World Economic Forum, to go beyond "system recovery", "system protection and maintenance" instead proposing a system re-design. Kumi Naidoo uses the WEF to amplify environmental messages to business leaders and politicians and lobby for green business practices and transformational changes in the
Euvin Naidoo channels). In February 2009 Naidoo was selected as a Young Global Leader (YGL) by the World Economic Forum (WEF). At the 2012 World Economic Forum on Africa, the final plenary session chose to profile five 'Rising Stars of Africa', drawn from across the continent- Euvin Naidoo was chosen to be a part of this group, honoured with helping close the event highlighting the views of the next generation of leaders. In August 2012 Euvin was also recruited onto the Global Agenda Council (GAC) USA, for the World Economic Forum. Per the description of the World Economic Forum, 'Global Agenda Councils...[are]