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Costa Rica advance on goal to become Carbon Neutral

January 28th, 2009 Manfred Kissling Leave a comment Go to comments

Last year Costa Rica met its goal of planting 7 million trees on a campaign led by the Environment Minister.

“More than seven million trees planted in 2008 helped offset 2.3 million tonnes of carbon dioxide”, explained the Environment Minister, Roberto Dobles.

Costa Rica has a goal to become “Carbon Neutral” in 2021.

The Minister also explained that those numbers place Costa Rica as the leading country in the world in terms of the number of trees planted per square meter and the number of trees planted on a per capita basis. Dobles added that the country will keep the goal of seven million new trees in 2009.

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