The Veneto regional council that decides policies for Venice was struck by a flood just minutes after the majority of the council members rejected a plan for tackling climate change , CNN reports . The ironic twist comes amid the worst floods in Venice for the last fifty years, CNN’s Gianluca Mezzofiore notes in the report, adding that the room in which the council was debating the regional budget for 2020 began to flood two minutes after the right-wing majority rejected amendments to the budget aimed at reducing the city’s carbon footprint . Among the measures the Veneto regional council rejected, according to Andrea Zanoni, a councilor from the Democratic Party, were replacing diesel buses with more eco-friendly ones, financing renewable energy projects, and reducing the use of plastics in Venice and the region. “Ironically, the chamber was flooded two minutes after the majority League, Brothers of Italy, and […]