Climate Home: I am speaking on behalf of the United States of America because my negotiators cannot. I am scared for my future. 2020 is too late to wait.
It is December 2011 and in the sultry heat of Durban, South Africa, tensions over a lack of progress at the 17th Conference of the Parties to the UN climate convention are boiling over.
As lead US negotiator Todd Stern prepares to make remarks to fellow delegates, he is interrupted by a 21-year old from Middlebury College in Vermont.
Abigail Borah...