Climate activists pour black liquid into Trevi fountain

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 21 - Members of Italy's Last Generation (Ultima Generazione - UG) group staged an act of civil disobedience to highlight the need to tackle the climate crisis on Sunday by pouring black liquid made from diluted vegetable charcoal into the Trevi fountain in Rome.
    The group of around ten people also stood inside the fountain holding a banner reading 'We Won't Pay for Fossil Fuels' - a reference to the campaign to stop public investment in, and subsidies of, fossil fuels, which are behind the greenhouse emissions causing the climate crisis.
    "Our country is dying," they shouted amid insults from tourists and passers by before local police intervened.
    The protest came on the heels of several similar acts of civil disobedience in Italy to draw attention to the climate crisis in recent weeks.
    Sunday's protesters reportedly made specific reference to the flooding and landslide emergency in Emilia Romagna caused by a new wave of extreme weather which scientists have linked to global warming. (ANSA).