(UPDATE) SYDNEY, Australia — Papua New Guinea will not participate in the UN climate summit scheduled for next month, its top diplomat said Thursday, calling the negotiations aimed at curbing global warming "a total waste of time" due to the actions of big polluting nations.
"There's no point going if we are falling asleep because of jet lag because we're not getting anything done," Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko said in an interview with AFP ahead of November's COP29 summit in Azerbaijan.
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