Abigail Borah & Todd Stern Durban COP17 December 8 2011
Channel: DavidLeeWilsonYT
Date: 2011-12-10

Abigail Borah said this: "I am speaking on behalf of the United States of America because my negotiators cannot.  The obstructionist Congress has shackled justice and delayed ambition for far too long. I am scared for my future. 2020 is too late to wait. We need an urgent path to a fair ambitious and legally binding treaty. You must take responsibility to act now, or you will threaten the lives of youth and the world's most vulnerable. You must set aside partisan politics and let science dictate decisions. You must pledge ambitious targets to lower emissions not expectations.  Citizens across the world are being held hostage by stillborn negotiations. We need leaders who will commit to real change, not empty rhetoric. Keep your promises. Keep our hope alive. 2020 is too late to wait."

And it doesn't matter what Todd Stern said - it was meaningless bafflegab & doubletalk.

The applause was for Abigail - despite what the smirking nobody of a Chairman said. And at the end of Todd Stern's speech there was, as they say, a 'smattering of polite and embarrased ...'.