The world's first carbon-negative country just cut its emissions 52% further

Bhutan was already the planet's outlier: the Himalayan kingdom absorbs more carbon than it emits, thanks to constitutional forest protection. New figures reported by ThePrint show it has gone further, cutting its carbon emissions by 52% since 1995 while its economy and population grew. Forests cover more than 70% of the country, hydropower runs the grid, and conservation is written into the constitution, which requires at least 60% forest cover for all time. Bhutan's negotiators have long argued that development and a shrinking footprint can move together — now they have three decades of national data pointing that way.

SDG 13 · Climate action — Mechanism: policy reform