Climate activists arrested at Louvre over oil sponsorship during COP21 conference

On 10 December 2015, demonstrators were detained outside the Louvre in Paris for staging a protest against the museum's corporate sponsorship by oil companies Total and Eni. The action involved participants walking barefoot through simulated oil spills within the museum's atrium. This demonstration coincided with COP21, the United Nations climate change conference held in Paris through 11 December. Protest groups included Art Not Oil and Liberate Tate from the United Kingdom, along with activists from the United States and Norway. Their collective aim was to pressure cultural institutions to end financial relationships with major fossil fuel corporations. The incident was reported by The Art Newspaper.