Costa Rica's Answers to Fight Climate Change.

Costa Rica will propose a carbon capture plan at the United Nations Climate Change Conference to be held next month in Copenhagen.

According to Costa Rica's Minister of Economy, Industry and Commerce, Eduardo Sibaja, Costa Rica was the first country to suggest a Carbon capture program where a mechanism was put in place to exchange clean air produced by Costa Rica's rain forests for CO2 emissions produced by industrial nations.

Additionally, there is a mechanism to measure the chemicals in the industrialized countries air versus Costa Rica's clean air.

At the conference Costa Rica will also propose a reclassification of countries incomes to reward countries which spend more on areas like peace and environmental protection.

Under the current simple classification poor countries receive the most international funding irrespective, in many cases, of what the funding is spent on. Whilst successful countries making positive global contributions receive little or no international funding.

Costa Rica will propose a reclassification of the assessment of countries incomes to reward those countries making positive global impacts with additional funding.

The Full story can be read in The Costa Rica News: Costa Rica’s answers to fight climate change

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