Papua New Guinea to boycott 'waste of time' UN climate summit

Papua New Guinea to boycott UN climate summit, calls it a 'waste of time'

Despite being one of the world’s most vulnerable nations to global warming's effects, Papua New Guinea has announced it will boycott the upcoming United Nations COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan. Officials from the Pacific island nation, where average temperatures have risen by about 1.5 degrees over the past century, called the event a "total waste of time." "We are sick of the rhetoric as well as the merry-go-round of getting absolutely nothi…

Papua New Guinea To Boycott 'Waste Of Time' UN Climate Summit

'Waste of time': Papua New Guinea will boycott the world's most important climate summit - Overpasses For America

Papua New Guinea 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 Conference of Parties (COP) summit in the past, it is rare for any government to so totally dismiss the UN’s premier climate talks. “There’s no point going if we are falling asleep because of jet lag because we’re not getting anythin…

'Waste of time': Papua New Guinea will boycott the world's most important climate summit

After heavily criticising the UN's annual Conference of the Parties (COP) climate summit, Papua New Guinea has said it will boycott COP29, declaring it can do "100 times more" with like-minded countries.