In a statement on its website, the group set out its demands: That Italy immediately reverse plans to reopen disused coal power plants and cancel gas drilling projects, and that the country increase solar and wind energy by at least 20 gigawatts this year – a tall order given Italy currently plans to add a total of 8GW to its renewable energy capacity by 2024.
Italians are meanwhile struggling with soaring energy bills, with outgoing Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s perceived failure to tackle this problem leading to the collapse of his government last week, and his resignation on Thursday.
The activist group said it targeted a museum as “Italy is internationally recognized as the cradle of artistic and museum heritage,” which they claim will be affected by “the ongoing eco-climactic and social collapse.” Last week, the group interrupted a performance of Puccini’s ‘Madame Butterfly’ in the Tuscan town of Lucca, while its members have previously sat on motorways to disrupt traffic.
In a statement on a recent blockage of a ring road in Rome, Last Generation acknowledged that it was deliberately preventing Romans from relaxing by the seaside or going to work.
Last Generation is not the only group of climate activists whose members have glued themselves to famous paintings. In the UK, a group called ‘Just Stop Oil’ has targeted works by Giampietrino, Vincent Van Gogh, and John Constable this summer in a bid to draw attention to their cause.
In any case, Philip Morris declared in March that it would diminish creation volumes and suspend arranged interests in Russia. While the organization kept on paying its in excess of 3,200 workers in Russia, Olczak said it was downsizing its Russian tasks "in fortitude with the guiltless everyone" of Ukraine.
Rival organizations British American Tobacco and Imperial Brands likewise reported plans to pull out from Russia and move their resources in the country to Russian proprietors. Royal Brands has since proceeded with its pullout, while British American Tobacco - which controls around a fourth of the Russian market - has not settled its own withdrawal.
Russian President Vladimir Putin probably won't be grieved by Western cigarettes leaving Russian racks. Putin's government has cinched down on smoking out in the open and confined cigarette promoting, while at the same time putting wellbeing admonitions on cigarette bundling and raising the extract obligation on tobacco items.
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