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Inside Costa Rica’s Climate Fight: Can the nation hold on to its green ideas?

Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast

CHAPTER

Costa Rica's Environmental Renaissance

This chapter explores Costa Rica's dramatic shift in forest cover from the 1940s to the 1980s, revealing how land ownership laws led to significant deforestation. It discusses the introduction of the Payment for Environmental Services Law in 1996, which incentivized conservation and has resulted in a resurgence of forest cover to 60%. The chapter further examines the interplay between environmental policies, ecotourism, and economic incentives, while critiquing global efforts to implement similar strategies.

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