Countries Compete to Become Carbon-Neutral

What a fantastic idea - The Worldwatch Institute announced last week that New Zealand and Costa Rica were now competing to become the first carbon-neutral country on the planet.

As stated in the article, Costa Rica "aims to reduce emissions from transport, farming, and industry, and to clean up its fossil fuel power plants, which account for 4 percent of the country’s electricity (of the rest, 78 percent comes from hydropower and 18 percent from wind and geothermal power)." New Zealand plans to increase its renewable electricity to 90%, up from today's 70%, by 2025. It's very impressive that both these countries already generate the large majority of their electricity using something other than fossil fuel, quite unlike the United States.