Protesters disrupt US panel's fossil fuels pitch at climate talks

Official event praising coal, oil and gas met with laughter and chants of 'shame on you'

A Trump administration presentation extolling the virtues of fossil fuels at the UN climate talks in Poland has been met with guffaws of laughter and chants of "Shame on you".

Monday's protest came during a panel discussion by the official US delegation, which used its only public appearance to promote the "unapologetic utilisation" of coal, oil and gas. Although these industries are the main source of the carbon emissions that are causing global warming, the speakers boasted the US would expand production for the sake of global energy security and planned a new fleet of coal plants with technology it hoped to export to other countries.