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    Bhutan's former Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay spoke at a 2016 TED talk about how Bhutan has pledged to remain carbon neutral forever. Bhutan currently has 71% forest cover, which absorbs over 6 million tons of CO2 annually, making it carbon negative. Bhutan prioritizes Gross National Happiness over GDP and pursues sustainable practices like renewable energy, LED lighting subsidies, and forestation programs to balance economic, social, and environmental goals. Bhutan has shown the world it is possible to address climate change through compassion and creativity.

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    Bhutan's former Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay spoke at a 2016 TED talk about how Bhutan has pledged to remain carbon neutral forever. Bhutan currently has 71% forest cover, which absorbs over 6 million tons of CO2 annually, making it carbon negative. Bhutan prioritizes Gross National Happiness over GDP and pursues sustainable practices like renewable energy, LED lighting subsidies, and forestation programs to balance economic, social, and environmental goals. Bhutan has shown the world it is possible to address climate change through compassion and creativity.

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    Bhutan's former Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay spoke at a 2016 TED talk about how Bhutan has pledged to remain carbon neutral forever. Bhutan currently has 71% forest cover, which absorbs over 6 million tons of CO2 annually, making it carbon negative. Bhutan prioritizes Gross National Happiness over GDP and pursues sustainable practices like renewable energy, LED lighting subsidies, and forestation programs to balance economic, social, and environmental goals. Bhutan has shown the world it is possible to address climate change through compassion and creativity.

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    ED REPORT

    TEDTALK BY TSHERING TOBGAY


    At a TED talk titled “This country isn’t just carbon neutral, it’s carbon negative” at Vancouver
    in 2016, Tshering Tobgay, the former Prime Minister of Bhutan spoke about Bhutan's pledge to
    remain carbon neutral forever. He spoke to the audience resonating Bhutan's environmental
    achievements, and the need of the world to unite and save the environment.

    Bhutan is a small and underdeveloped country sandwiched between the two most heavily
    populated countries of the world, India and China. While it is surviving, it is also equally
    flourishing and thriving. There is a beautiful balance of economic growth with social
    development, environmental sustainability and cultural preservation, all by the whole and sole
    framework of good governance.

    The government has pledged to preserve a minimum of 60% of its land as forest cover. It
    currently has a 71% of land as forest cover which successfully manages to absorb over 6
    million tonnes of CO2 while also making it one of the most biodiverse spots.
    As beautifully stated by Mr. Tobgay, the mission of the country is around the unique concept of
    Gross National Happiness (GNH) which signifies the happiness of individuals over the
    economy of the country. Although, Bhutan is known to have a Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
    less than 2 Billion dollars, it certainly reduces carbon emissions greater than any country in the
    world. Bhutan is absolutely carbon negative!

    All of this, while following some of the most eccentric practices as a country
    •Sustainable transport - electricity borne
    •Free electricity to Farmers as an alternative to firewood
    •Subsidizing the cost of LED lights
    •Trying to go paperless
    •Various programs like “Clean Bhutan” to clean the country and “Green Bhutan” for planting
    trees
    •Connecting the protected areas with one another through biological corridors
    A very interesting program was “Bhutan for life“ which was a funding mechanism to look after
    their protected areas until the government was fully ready to take over.

    The governments came together to work on climate change during COP21 and decided to
    reduce the green house gas emissions. UN Framework Convention on Climate Change stated
    that if we keep the intended commitment, we could contain global warming by 2 degrees
    celsius.
    Bhutan has made possible what no other country has been able to achieve. This carbon-
    negative country has shown us how we can address climate change with compassion,
    commitment and creativity and come out on top. It's real, and our response will take two forms:
    IQRA TARANNUM
    slowing it down if we can and earning to live with the change we can't stop anymore.
    MBA 2nd SEM
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