Bhutan's prime minister spoke to Newsweek on its geopolitical footsteps and how the first carbon-negative country is suffering the impact of climate change | ✍️TellDM | PMOIndia | BhutanPM |
Bhutan, the highest country in the world, is carefully managing relationships with giant neighbors India and China even as the carbon-negative kingdom tries to cope with the challenges of climate change resulting from emissions elsewhere, Prime Minister Lotay Tshering toldFriendly with India, with which it does well over 80 percent of its trade, Bhutan is locked in border negotiations with China, which claims a swathe of the country of about 775,000 people.
The United States of America is also"the" economy right now and leader in the world global power, and we have lot of goodwill with all Americans and the government of America and the leadership there. So, I think it's a win-win situation. For us, it will be very difficult to pick one from the three. And for that matter, genuinely, it is wrong to pick one from all good neighbors or good countries in the world. So, they are all good for us.
We have very good relations with India historically and geographically. And I was very happy to have Indian Prime Minister Modi visit us as the first country after elections, and I also reciprocated being in New Delhi as my first destination after elections. This relationship should go on forever.
What will we do in future? We have already committed to the UN and all climate bodies and have pledged to keep the country as green as we have now forever. The 72% of the country under forest cover is again further protected as national parks, biological corridors, biodiversity hotspots and we have legal instruments in place to protect them forever—at certain places, even at the cost of some inhabitants.
In the whole world, a lot of money, a lot of resources are being pumped into reducing greenhouse gas emissions and reducing the level of emissions so that we bring the whole world to carbon neutrality by 2050. Many big emitters have also pledged. China and India have also pledged. That's very difficult. Pledging that we will be carbon negative forever is a little easier for us than it is for India and China to pledge becoming carbon neutral by 2060 or 2070. That is a bigger commitment.
Yes, when I said Bhutan has a lot of unique features, 'health and education' are among them. His Majesty the King, the successive monarchs, have always believed that the best social equalizers are health and education. We have a totally state funded free healthcare and education in the country. We want to give the best of education and keep it free.
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