Environmental activists took over a pro-fossil fuel event at the United Nations climate conference, storming onto the stage and chanting “keep it in the ground.”
The Trump administration is maintaining a presence in the week-long climate conference that’s being held in Katowice, Poland.
While the conference centers on how to transition to clean energy and reduce the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, the U.S. delegation has used it as an opportunity to promote the benefits of fossil fuels.
The U.S. government hosted a panel Monday titled “U.S. Innovative Technologies Spur Economic Dynamism.”
The event was intended to “showcase ways to use fossil fuels as cleanly and efficiently as possible, as well as the use of emission-free nuclear energy,” according to a statement from the State Department.
“These job-creating innovations have contributed to reducing U.S. emissions while also growing our economy and providing reliable and affordable access to energy,” the State Department continued.
However, the meeting was derailed by a crowd of protesters who demanded an end to fossil fuels.
Disruption started with folks laughing at the administration rep #COP24 pic.twitter.com/ZcxWeJ37JF
— Kate Aronoff (@KateAronoff) December 10, 2018
The group sang “keep it in the ground,” a slogan environmentalists use to demand fossil fuel sources not be extracted from the earth.
— SustainUS (@SustainUS) December 10, 2018
“For the second time in two years, we are disrupting a panel (manel) of Trump admin and industry cronies promoting coal, gas, oil and nuclear as ‘solutions’ at the UN climate talks,” tweeted Ben Goloff, a climate campaigner for the Center for Biological Diversity. Goloff was among those who took part in the protest.
It’s not immediately why the Center for Biological Diversity is taking an issue with nuclear — a source of energy that produces large and reliable amounts of electricity while emitting zero carbon emissions.
The U.N. holds a climate change conference every year. This year’s event was notable in that it was held in the city of Katowice, Poland — a region with a heavy coal presence.
Members of the U.N. meet annually to discuss how to reduce the world’s carbon emissions, and since 2015 members have discussed how to meet the standards set out in the 2015 Paris climate agreement.
While the Trump administration has announced its intention to withdraw from the Paris agreement, it still sends a delegation to the annual conference.
Environmental protesters also disrupted the 2017 event.
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Cut off all their fossil fuel based products they use lets see them get a surprise and i bet even that stupid banner their holding up has a lot to do with fossil fuels
The reason these protesters can show up at such events is exactly because we don’t keep the carbon-based fuels in the ground. If our societies depended solely on “green energies” there would be no conferences because nobody could get to them. And they’d be too busy trying to live grubby lives just trying to subsist–most people would die in this nirvana.
I wonder how that Goloff heats his home and how dose he get around? someone needs to put these Eco-Wackos to the test and take away everything of theirs that is made with fossil fuels and lets see how dumb they look and feel it should go to all these anti-fracking anti drilling Eco-Wacko idiots let them feel what its like living ina a cold cold home with little or none of all everyday products a lesson they wont learn from some Eco-Freaks or the NYT’s and CNN