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

FILE - Papua New Guinea's Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko speaks during a press conference with China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, on April 20, 2024.

Papua New Guinea on Thursday 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.