Man, woman glue themselves to Goya's paintings at Madrid museum in climate protest
Two activists glued themselves to Francisco de Goya's Maja paintings in Madrid's Prado Museum on Saturday in a protest over climate change.
The man and a woman glued themselves to Goya's “La Maja Vestida” (The Clothed Maja) and “La Maja Desnuda” (The Naked Maja), two of the Spanish painter's best-known works.
The protesters, from a group calling itself Futuro Vegetal, also daubed “+1.5C” on the wall in black paint between the two paintings, in reference to the limit fixed by the 2016 Paris climate agreement on rising temperatures.
Futuro Vegetal tweeted: "We glued ourselves to Goya's Las Majas in the Prado. Last week the UN recognised the impossibility of keeping us below the limit of 1.5 Celsius [agreed at the 2015 Paris climate agreement]."
"We need change now."
The Prado Museum did not respond immediately to requests for comment.
Representatives from nearly 200 countries will gather in Egypt next week for the COP27 climate change conference, as pressure for tougher action to tackle global warming grows.
Last week, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) reported that there was “no credible path to 1.5C in place today” despite legal binding promises made by countries at the 2015 Paris climate change conference. “Only a root-and-branch transformation of our economies and societies can save us from accelerating climate disaster,” said UNEP executive director Inger Andersen.
Reuters
