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Tourism will help reduce carbon dioxide emissions, October 18, 2007
The agreement signed between the Costa Rica Tourism Board (ICT) and the National Forestry Financing Fund (Fonafifo) seeks that national and foreign tourists contribute in the compensation of gas emissions that are produced by airplanes and cars.
The affiliation to the initiative is voluntary for the tourism operators, but the ones that undertake it will achieve that their clients contribute with a small tax during their arrival or departure from the country.
Carlos Ricardo Benavides, Minister of Tourism, indicated that the Costa Ricans can be an example for the world in the conservation matter, specifically in carbon monoxide reduction. This is why in next November fair in London, England, public and private national companies will undertake it “in a clean way” compensating the National Forestry Financing Fund (Fonafifo) for the carbon dioxide emission caused during that trip.
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