Fiji and Papua New Guinea have better things to do than turn up to pointless "climate" meetings

At least some countries have the sense not to waste valuable time and money attending yet more pointless climate gab-fests. There was head-scratching all around the table at the Samoan climate change conference when Fiji and PNG didn't show. I wonder why? Maybe they have better things to do...

"He [the Director for the secretariat of the Pacific regional Environmental Program] said that they too have not been informed of why the two countries, the biggest in the Pacific Islands, have not turned up and he wouldn't say whether he was disappointed or not, but certainly their absence from this meeting has been the talk of some delegates."

Read it here.