Carbon
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They have exactly the same amount of
carbon.
But the difference is, on Earth, most of the
carbon
has been leeched over time out of the atmosphere, deposited in the ground as coal, oil, natural gas, etc.
This is relevant to our current strategy of taking as much
carbon
out of the ground as quickly as possible, and putting it into the atmosphere.
Put a price on
carbon.
If you are investing in tar sands or shale oil, then you have a portfolio that is crammed with sub-prime
carbon
assets.
The problem is, all the interesting physics happens in the core, and the core is hidden behind thousands of kilometers of iron and
carbon
and silicon.
So you get central bankers like Mark Carney, the head of the UK Central Bank, saying the vast majority of the
carbon
reserves are unburnable.
Subprime
carbon.
If you look at all of the
carbon
fuels that were burned since the beginning of the industrial revolution, this is the quantity burned in the last 16 years.
160 billion dollars in lost productivity, of course also sitting in traffic, and one-fifth of all of our
carbon
footprint is spewed out in the air by those cars that we're sitting in.
Recently
carbon
dated to around 1420, its vellum pages features looping handwriting and hand-drawn images seemingly stolen from a dream.
The first breakthrough was the
carbon
dating.
Our promise to remain
carbon
neutral is also unique, and this is what I'd like to speak about today, our promise to remain
carbon
neutral.
That's why we are one of the few remaining global biodiversity hotspots in the world, and that's why we are a
carbon
neutral country.
In a world that is threatened with climate change, we are a
carbon
neutral country.
Of the 200-odd countries in the world today, it looks like we are the only one that's
carbon
neutral.
Bhutan is not
carbon
neutral.
Bhutan is
carbon
negative.
Our entire country generates 2.2 million tons of
carbon
dioxide, but our forests, they sequester more than three times that amount, so we are a net
carbon
sink for more than four million tons of
carbon
dioxide each year.
So today, the clean energy that we export offsets about six million tons of
carbon
dioxide in our neighborhood.
By 2020, we'll be exporting enough electricity to offset 17 million tons of
carbon
dioxide.
And if we were to harness even half our hydropower potential, and that's exactly what we are working at, the clean, green energy that we export would offset something like 50 million tons of
carbon
dioxide a year.
So inside our country, we are a net
carbon
sink.
Outside, we are offsetting
carbon.
That's why we have promised to remain
carbon
neutral.
Governments were so busy arguing with one another and blaming each other for causing climate change, that when a small country raised our hands and announced, "We promise to remain
carbon
neutral for all time," nobody heard us.
Last December in Paris, at COP 21, we reiterated our promise to remain
carbon
neutral for all time to come.
As far as Bhutan is concerned, we will keep our promise to remain
carbon
neutral.
But it is our protected areas that are at the core of our
carbon
neutral strategy.
Our protected areas are our
carbon
sink.
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