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Brussels, Sep 23 (EFE), (Camera: Leopoldo Rodríguez).- The Spanish embassy in Belgium inaugurated Wednesday a mural called "Butterfly Effect" by the Spanish artists Olimpia Velasco and Esther Pizarro.The work aims to raise awareness against climate change.The mural is part of a joint initiative between the Brussels City Council and the Spanish embassy.FOOTAGE OF THE PRESENTATION.SOUNDBITES OF OLIMPIA VELASCO, ARTIST:"The mural is called the Butterfly Effect. It talks about the fact that small actions in a specific part can become in great changes or having consequences in another part of the world. ""We wanted to highlight the idea of the tree since it gives the city the 'green' part. It integrates the city into nature. Then we have the woman, who represents the human being, in a bid to continue fighting so that women have the same rights and freedoms as men, which is something that we haven't achieved yet. The woman enters the tree to connect with nature to create that connection between human beings and nature under the idea that returning to nature is also returning home."
Australian water scarcity activist Mina Guli completes her 200th marathon outside the UN headquarters ahead of the UN Water Conference in New York City. "The strength in this is demonstrating our ability to come together as a community to do the hard things that are needed to solve this level water crisis," Guli tells fans after crossing the finish line. IMAGES
Sao Paulo, Oct 16 (EFE) .- Brazilian artist Mundano gives life to more than 200 kilos of ash collected in the Amazon which were a result of the recent fires in Brazil with a huge mural in Sao Paulo, where he seeks to denounce the environmental "dismantling" that is taking place in his country.(Camera: WALLACE CARVALHO / SEBASTIAO MOREIRA) SHOT LIST: BRAZILIAN ARTIST MUNDANO'S MURAL IN SAO PAULO, BRAZIL.SOUND BITES: ARTIST MUNDANO (IN PORTUGUESE):1. (I want) to incite people to reflect on what future they want. because climate change is already a reality, we already see its impact all over the world. 2. I had the idea to reflect on 'café labrador', which is an iconic work by Portinari, because she is a pioneer in showing inequality and the impact of agribuisiness. 3. When the forest is reduced to ashed, we too become ashes. 4. Then I thought that (the gray) would be more dramatic, more cisceral and more shocking, and that is the goal of the mural.5. I think we are witnesses of the greatest socioenvironmental settlement in our history under the Bolsonaro government and we cannot keep quiet.
Bogor, Sep 24 (EFE/EPA).- At least 100 meters long anti drugs campaign mural was set up at an Indonesian village in West Java as the country is battling both pandemic and illegal drug sales all at once.According to the survey conducted by Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) and the National Narcotics Agency (BNN), 180 people of every 10,000 Indonesians aged between 15 to 64 years old have been pushed into drug addiction. (Camera: BAGUS INDAHONO). B-ROLL OF THE ANTI-DRUGS CAMPAIGN MURAL IN BOGOR, WEST JAVA, INDONESIA.
Around one thousand tractors are expected to block the city centre of Poznan in Poland in protest against EU measures to tackle climate change. Polish farmers are blocking roads and staging protests at border checkpoints with Ukraine, in a new wave of protests against farming imports from the neighbouring war-torn country. IMAGES
Images show floodwater on road that leads to the city of Volos in Greece. At least one person has died in eastern Greece after torrential rains hit the country, already ravaged for weeks by devastating wildfires, authorities say. The regional capital Volos has seen 200 millimetres (about eight inches) of rain, while 516 mm have fallen in the neighbouring village of Zagora, according to the National Meteorological Service (EMY). IMAGES
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