'Carbon-neutral' countries demand credit at COP29

Baku: They re some of the world s smallest nations, but a group of countries that say they absorb more carbon than they emit is demanding attention at...

Baku: They're some of the world's smallest nations, but a group of countries that say they absorb more carbon than they emit is demanding attention at the UN COP29 talks.

Bhutan, Panama, Madagascar and Suriname rarely make the headlines at the annual climate conference, lost among the rich nations and major emitters that hog the limelight.

By banding together to highlight their unusual status, they hope to change that.

"Our biggest ask is acknowledgement," Bhutan's Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay told AFP in an interview in Baku where the countries launched their "G-Zero Forum".

"If you don't acknowledge this very important fact, a fact born out of decades of sacrifice... why would any country be serious about achieving carbon neutrality."