“I am scared for my future,” Borah said. “2020 is too late to wait. We need an urgent path to a fair, ambitious and legally binding treaty ... The obstructionist Congress has shackled justice and delayed ambition for far too long.”
Borah interrupted Todd Stern, the U.S. envoy and top U.S. negotiator to the conference. Following her outburst, she received a standing ovation before being ejected from the conference.
Borah is a member of the SustainUS delegation attending the U.N. conference, the only U.S. youth delegation attending. While in Princeton, she attended the Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart for 16 years.
The 2011 U.N. Climate Change Conference was held in Durban, South Africa, from Nov. 28 to Dec. 11. Among other decisions, the conference agreed to extend the agreements of the Kyoto Protocol, which originally expired in 2012, until 2020.
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