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Ex President of Costa Rica - 'Creating Low Carbon Economies is an Opportunity'

02.04.2016 - By Kevin CanersPlay

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Jose Maria Figueres is the President of the Carbon War Room, an organization that supports initiatives by private companies to reduce their carbon emissions. And previously he was the president of Costa Rica. We talked with Figueres about why he sees moving towards low carbon economies as an opportunity to combat other issues such as poverty, and about Costa Rica's own ambitious efforts to become carbon neutral by 2021.

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