PNG to boycott UN climate summit for ‘waste of time’


One of nature’s finest: PNG has long been celebrated as one of the ‘lungs of the earth’ and this file photo shows Varirata national park near Port Moresby. — AFP

THE country has declared a boycott of next month’s UN climate summit, branding the global warming negotiations a “waste of time”, full of empty promises from big polluters.

While plenty have criticised the annual COP summit in the past, it is rare for any government to totally dismiss the UN’s premier climate talks.

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