Negotiations are slow because certain nations are adept at abusing the process for their own gain. They're also slow because the UN system is complicated and their meetings are closed to most observers. That body elected Argentinean Maria Julia Alsogaray as president on the opening day of the conference. Her comments, of course, assume global warming and its effects are proven scientifically, that mans' activities could cause global warming and that the UN system is the cure. In all, the purpose of the Plenary was simply to cajole those doing the negotiations.
Negotiations take place in the subsidiary bodies.
There are also contact groups that are open-ended meetings wherein Parties can negotiate before forwarding agreed text to the plenary for formal adoption. The last thing the U.S. should do is to provide more financial and technological aid to ravenous and greedy tigers.