{"id":122739,"date":"2023-12-10T12:30:27","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T12:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lasixlineon.com\/?p=122739"},"modified":"2023-12-10T12:30:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T12:30:27","slug":"extinction-rebellion-stunt-turns-venices-water-green-in-cop28-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lasixlineon.com\/world-news\/extinction-rebellion-stunt-turns-venices-water-green-in-cop28-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Extinction Rebellion stunt turns Venice’s water green in COP28 protest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Activists turned the water of Venice’s main canal fluorescent green to denounce the “failure” by governments to tackle the climate emergency.<\/p>\n

Members of Extinction Rebellion (XR) poured fluorescein, a fluorescent tracer used by plumbers and divers, into the main canal in the Italian lagoon known as Canal Grande on Saturday.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Astonishing pictures show the iconic gondolas crossing the green waters as climate activists lowered a pink banner from the Rialto Bridge.<\/p>\n

Their message read: “COP28: While the Government speaks we are hanging on by a thread”.<\/p>\n

Similar protests also took place in other main Italian cities. Areas in the Navigli in Milan, the Tevere in Rome and Po in Turin were temporarily turned green by the substance used by the activists.<\/p>\n

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The protest came just days before COP28, the United Nations summit on climate change, will come to a close.<\/p>\n

Speaking about the conference held in Dubai, Italian XR activists said in a statement: “Within hours, these waters will return as they were. But the colour of our seas and rivers will keep changing as temperatures continue to increase.”<\/p>\n

The statement also hit out at the decision to hold the climate summit in the UAE, a nation “the economy of which is held up by oil”, the activists claimed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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