Inter Press ServiceEcobreves - Expansion of Environmental Services https://www.ipsnews.net/2001/02/ecobreves-expansion-of-environmental-services/ News and Views from the Global South Wed, 11 Nov 2026 06:23:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 Ecobreves – Expansion of Environmental Services https://www.ipsnews.net/2001/02/ecobreves-expansion-of-environmental-services/ https://www.ipsnews.net/2001/02/ecobreves-expansion-of-environmental-services/#respond Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000 IPS Correspondents and No author http://ipsnews.net/?p=123179 By IPS Correspondents and - -
SAN JOSE, Feb 4 2001 (IPS)

The Costa Rica government is to reinforce its Environmental Services Program with the help of a donation from Germany totaling nine million dollars, earmarked for 43,000 hectares that are currently in private hands, announced Elizabeth Odio, minister of environment. Through this project, the government pays landowners for the services provided by maintaining their forests intact, including the production of oxygen and water.

Based on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Costa Rica hopes that in the near future industrialized nations will invest in protecting forests here as a way to curb global warming.

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