Italy: Venice council flooded after 'NO' vote on climate change measures

Xeni Jardin 4:27 pm Thu Nov 14, 2019

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An Italian council was flooded immediately after rejecting new measures to address the climate crisis that threatens to sink the city, and wreak havoc throughout the world.

The regional council of Veneto is situated on Venice's Grand Canal. On Tuesday night, the office flooded for the first time in its history, right after rejecting measures to fight climate change.

Andrea Zanoni, Facebook

Here is a post on Facebook with images.

Venice has been hit this week by the worst flooding in over 50 years.

Reporting by Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN:

And the council chamber in Ferro Fini Palace started to take in water around 10 p.m. local time, as councilors were debating the 2020 regional budget, Democratic Party councilor Andrea Zanoni said in a long Facebook post.

"Ironically, the chamber was flooded two minutes after the majority League, Brothers of Italy, and Forza Italia parties rejected our amendments to tackle climate change," Zanoni, who is deputy chairman of the environment committee, said in the post, which also has photographs of the room under water.

Among the rejected amendments were measures to fund renewable sources, to replace diesel buses with "more efficient and less polluting ones," to scrap polluting stoves and reduce the impact of plastics, he said.

Italian council is flooded immediately after rejecting measures on climate change [cnn.com]

Previously: Venice is flooded right now and it looks miserable

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