
The Colosseum, the Pantheon and the Trevi fountain were among monuments that went dark across Italy on Friday as part of a national demonstration of concern about climate change. The lights were turned off at monuments, landmarks and public buildings in Florence, Venice, Naples, Bologna, Milan and Pisa - and the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies in Rome -for about half an hour at 6 p.m. (1700GMT) to mark the second anniversary of the Kyoto treaty. The treaty negotiated in 1997 calls for reining in industrial emissions of carbon dioxide and other "greenhouse gases" - a first global attempt to control climate change. Thirty-five industrial nations have endorsed the pact, agreeing to cut their global-warming gases by 5 percent on average below 1990 levels by 2012. story- http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/sgw_read.asp?id=448162162007