US booed, jeered by collective Bali congress in extraordinary diplomatic showdown: 60 second demonstration prompts US switch of position

This story comes from from an eyewitness at the UN Conference on Climate Change, detailing the extraordinary uproar by the international delegations that prompted the US to discontinue its holdout against the other assembled nations.

“Then occurred one of the most remarkable sounds that has perhaps ever been heard in the annals of international diplomacy — like a collective global groan … a murmer, then increasing in volume to a full-throated expression of rage and anger and booing and jeering, lasting for a full minute, so that finally the Minister had to call the meeting back to order.”

The complete story is featured in SolveClimate.

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