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Nepal floods bring renewed focus on neighbour Bhutan’s efforts to protect its economically crucial – but debt generating – hydro infrastructure and trade with India.
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The South Asian country's decades-long conservation efforts, bolstered by Restore Bhutan’s goal of bringing 50,000 hectares of degraded landscapes back to health by 2030, have earned the kingdom a place among the 2026 Earthshot Prize finalists.
A hydroelectricity deal complicated by the need to cross through India has now been brought to a standstill by the disaster.
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