Costa Rica: a laboratory for carbon neutrality?

A woman with her child on a footpath near the border between Nicaragua and Costa Rica. REUTERS / Oswaldo Rivas

By: Anne-Cécile Bras Follow

Often cited as a model at international level for the preservation of its environment, the stability of its democracy and the Pura Vida philosophy of its population, Costa Rica is also observed for its plan to decarbonize the economy.

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Objective: achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. How to do it? By focusing in particular on the agricultural sector.
- Exclusive interview with Carlos Alvarado, President of Costa Rica.

- Report in a carbon neutral coffee plantation with Frédéric Gay, CIRAD researcher  and Muhammad Ibrahim, director general of CATIE, the Tropical Agronomic Center for Research and Education
- Claudine Foucherot , agriculture project manager at the Institut de l for the climate.

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