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Venice’s Grand Canal dyed fluorescent green by climate activists

Source: REUTERS

Climate activists dyed Venice’s famous Grand Canal green in protest at what they claimed was a lack of progress at the Cop28 climate summit.

Members of branch of were with a banner that read: “COP28: While the government talks, we are hanging by a thread.”

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