Costa Rica is moving toward carbon neutrality

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This small nation in Central America is already one of the greenest countries on Earth. Now, Costa Rica has a new goal for itself: achieving zero emissions.

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00:00Costa Rica has been decarbonizing the economy even before the Climate Change Convention came into action.

00:30The Climate Change Convention is the first in the world to decarbonize the environment.

00:37It is the first in the world to decarbonize the environment and to decarbonize the planet.

00:46Costa Rica has been probably the first or only developing country in the world that has stopped deforestation,

00:53doubled the size of the forests while we tripled the size of our economy.

00:57Proving that protecting nature is not a burden to growth.

02:57The transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources is fundamental and is at the center of this process.

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