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How Costa Rica’s environment minister talks to his daughter about climate change

Carlos Manuel Rodríguez on the value of nature's carbon-fighting machines - trees. Image: REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate

Samantha Sault
Writer, Washington DC and Geneva
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If tropical deforestation were a country, it would rank third in carbon dioxide-equivalent emissions, only behind China and the United States of America.
Image: Seymour & Busch 2016 / Global Forest Watch / World Resources Institute
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