In perhaps the boldest environmental move by any nation, President Oscar Arias of Costa Rica has announced that Costa Rica will be carbon neutral by 2021 - probably the first in the world to be so.
Hydrocarbons - including gasoline and diesel - already bear a heavy tax burden, making fuel there more expensive than in any other country in Central America. Three percent of these taxes fund Costa Rica's cutting-edge program of payment for environmental services, called the National Forest Financing Fund (FONAFIFO), which compensates landowners for growing trees.... the program doles out almost $15 million a year to more than 8,000 property owners.
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