On Wednesday 2nd of April Stockholm Resilience Centre arranged an open seminar titled “Investing in Nature for Human Prosperity”. The Centre was honoured to have Carlos Manuel Rodríguez, CEO and Chairperson of Global Environment Facility (GEF) as key note speaker. Many of them came from the agricultural sector, which at the time contributed around 40 percent of Costa Rica’s GDP," said Carlos Manuel Rodríguez. Through hard work, these harmful incentives and subsidies were replaced by incentives that promoted people to plant, protect and restore nature. “To make a system change happen that harmonize human systems with natural systems, we need a deep analysis of how societies and governments make decisions,” said Carlos Manuel Rodríguez.