Small Countries Making A Big Difference

Many nations around the world are making the necessary pledges to reduce harmful carbon emissions, with a goal of becoming ‘carbon neutral’ several years from now. But what’s truly impressive are the countries certified by the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat as ‘carbonnegative’.

This tiny but growing club of forested countries absorb more carbon than they produce, according to the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Certified so far are Bhutan (the Himalayan kingdom absorbs nine million tonnes of carbon each year, while its economy has been designed to produce just four million tonnes) and Suriname, which lies just north of Brazil. Panama is set to become the third nation certified as carbon-negative.