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Costa Rica -to be world’s first fully decarbonised country

Independent 10th May 2018 , Costa Rica’s new president has announced a plan to ban fossil fuels and
become the first fully decarbonised country in the world. Carlos Alvarado,10 May 18.
a 38-year-old former journalist, made the announcement to a crowd of
thousands during his inauguration on Wednesday. “Decarbonisation is the
great task of our generation and Costa Rica must be one of the first
countries in the world to accomplish it, if not the first,” Mr Alvarado
said. “We have the titanic and beautiful task of abolishing the use of
fossil fuels in our economy to make way for the use of clean and renewable
energies.” Symbolically, the president arrived at the ceremony in San Jose
aboard a hydrogen-fuelled bus.
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/costa-rica-fossil-fuels-ban-president-carlos-alvarado-climate-change-global-warming-a8344541.html

May 12, 2018 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized