Almost every nation pumps more carbon into the air than it removes, but one small Himalayan kingdom does the exact reverse: Bhutan absorbs more carbon than it emits, a rare carbon-negative country that measures its success by Gross National Happiness

Almost every nation pumps more carbon into the air than it removes, but one small Himalayan kingdom does the exact reverse: Bhutan absorbs more carbon than it emits, a rare carbon-negative country that measures its success by Gross National Happiness

Nearly every country on the map runs a carbon deficit. It burns, builds and drives more than its land can soak back up, and the remainder accumulates in the atmosphere. Then there is Bhutan, a small kingdom in the eastern Himalayas between China and India, with a population under a million. It runs the ledger the other way. Its forests and other land-based sinks remove more greenhouse gases than the whole economy emits. That’s unusual enough to …