Protesters disrupted a U.S. government event at United Nations climate talks Monday, criticizing the Trump administration's policy of backing the extraction of fossil fuels that contribute to global warming. Their actions mirrored a similar protest during a U.S.-hosted panel at last year's U.N. climate talks in Bonn, Germany. Wells Griffith, a Trump administration adviser at the Department of Energy, said after the interruption that the United States would continue extracting fossil fuels, including through hydraulic fracking. Investors, too, have backed a shift away from fossil fuels. Most of the world's countries are signatories to the 2015 agreement, while President Donald Trump has said he will withdraw the United States from it.

Source: ABC News December 10, 2018 14:07 UTC