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Costa Rica restored its forests and switched to renewable energy — what can the world learn from it?


Lessons learned here hold solutions that can cross borders.

The Verge explored those questions on the ground in Costa Rica, with support from the International Center for Journalists and local media organization Punto y Aparte, and discovered hard-learned lessons that cross borders. Ecologist Daniel Janzen wades into the field, clutching a walking stick in one hand and a fist full of towering green blades of grass in the other to steady himself. Climate change poses new risks to the power grid, and Costa Rica has a lot of work left to do to get more solar and wind farms online.

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