Environmental activists have today a speech of the American delegate at the UN environmental conference COP 24 in Katowice disturbed. The protesters names, in particular the energy policy of U.S. president Donald Trump on the grain.
Preston Wells Griffith, Trumps counselor on energy and climate, held at the meeting and delivered a speech when he was interrupted by those present that the slogan ‘shame on you’, chanted and banners were brought in.
Griffith said that the united states in the future will not stop with coal mining and the use of fossil fuels. “The reality is that countries fossil fuels will continue to be used for energy, transportation and industrial needs of their citizens, to ensure. The nuclear industry will also be large amounts of zero energy supply, especially for the nearly one billion people on earth who have no, or barely have access to energy supplies,” said Griffith.
“If we make the access to affordable and reliable energy want to ensure, then it is clear that innovation in the area of fossil fuels in a leading role, will continue to play,” he said before he was interrupted. The security personnel did not. During the protest remained There motionless and silently to the pulpit.
In Trumps energy policy is among other things used in coal mining. Again, he has US out of the climate deal Paris withdrawn. The retreat will be in november 2020, which was the reason why a Us delegation in Katowice.
