Greenpeace partially drowns the Statue of Liberty and urges G7 leaders to act against global warming

Record ID: 876973

  • Title: Greenpeace partially drowns the Statue of Liberty and urges G7 leaders to act against global warming
  • Date: 26th May 2017
  • Summary: GIARDINI NAXOS, ITALY (MAY 26, 2017) (REUTERS) GREENPEACE ACTIVISTS IN CANOES IN SEA VARIOUS OF GREENPEACE ACTIVISTS PUTTING MODEL OF STATUE OF LIBERTY INTO POSITION MODEL OF STATUE OF LIBERTY WEARING LIFE-VEST IN SEA WITH SIGN READING 'CLIMATE JUSTICE NOW' VARIOUS OF GREENPEACE ACTIVISTS PUTTING SIGN IN PLACE SIGN READING 'CLIMATE JUSTICE' HELD BY ACTIVIST VARIOUS OF ACTIVISTS POSITIONING STATUE OF LIBERTY (SOUNDBITE) (English) GREENPEACE ITALY REPRESENTATIVE FOR ENERGY AND CLIMATE, LUCA IACOBONI, SAYING: "At the opening day of the G7 summit, Greenpeace activists are protesting and demanding strong climate action. G7 countries played a major role in polluting our planet and must now lead the way to the solution. For this reason, Greenpeace is calling G7 leaders to re-affirm their commitment to improve the Paris agreement. If leaders like (U.S. President Donald) Trump will not respect their obligations the rest of the G7 must go forward because we do not have time. We have to phase-out fossil fuels and phase-in renewables and we have to do it now. Our answer to Trump's America first, should be planet earth first." VARIOUS OF STATUE OF LIBERTY IN LIFE-VEST IN SEA
  • Embargoed: 9th June 2017 12:50
  • Keywords: global warming Statue of Liberty summit G7 Greenpeace
  • Location: GIARDINI NAXOS, ITALY
  • City: GIARDINI NAXOS, ITALY
  • Country: Italy
  • Topics: G7,Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA0016IH5E87
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:Activists from the environmental group Greenpeace on Friday (May 26), dressed a mock Statue of Liberty in a life-vest and submerged her in the Mediterranean sea.
    Greenpeace is calling on G7 leaders meeting in the Sicilian town of Taormina to proffer more decisive action against global warming.
    Some 20 activists from Italy, Switzerland, Austria and Germany, paddled off into the waves from the nearby Gardini Naxos beach in canoes, and warned that industry-driven global warming could melt the polar ice and lead to a dramatically rising level of seas worldwide.
    U.S. President Donald Trump, who dismissed human-made global warming as a "hoax" during his election campaign, is threatening to pull the United States out of a 2015 climate deal clinched in Paris in 2015. Fellow G7 leaders from Germany, Great Britain, Japan, France, Italy and Canada are trying to convince him to stay in.
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