"The Most Obdurate Bully in the Room": U.S. Widely Criticized For Role At Climate Talks

Democracy now speak with two representatives of civil society who have attended the U.N. climate talks for the past decade. "We strongly believe that we need a high level of ambition, we need urgent action, and we need action based on equitable sharing of the atmospheric space," says Sunita Narain, Indian environmentalist and director general of the Centre for Science and Environment. "So we said to the Indian government, we expect the Indian government to be hard on what the world needs and to walk out, now because I think the time for talking is gone. We need hard action." We are also joined by Tom Goldtooth, a member of the Indigenous Caucus, and executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network. "There is no guarantee we are going to have a strong Doha deal coming out of here," Goldtooth says. "So we're committing, as native indigenous peoples from the United States, to go back and have highest level government to government meetings with Obama and his administration, to hold him accountable to some commitments he made on climate."

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