The Costa Rican government took several foundational steps as it committed to a midcentury net-zero emissions target in its 2019 National Decarbonization Plan.
The Costa Rican government has an opportunity to transform the 2050 National Decarbonization Plan of 2019 into a national investment plan that aligns with its priority areas, calculating costs and estimating needed investments locally and internationally, and making the investment case to local businesses.
Costa Rica has set out to demonstrate fair, adaptive and resilient decarbonisation, committing to an absolute maximum of net emissions in 2030 of 9.11 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e) including all emissions and all sectors covered by the National Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory.
International investment is one aspect of potential financing, engaging local businesses and investors will also be key politically to make truly transformational change. How to generate these concrete, attractive business opportunities is the next big question for Costa Rica.
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Costa Rica''s Ministry of Environment and Energy (MINAE) and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) presented innovative projects developed in the Central
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Facilitating the implementation of climate-resilient and low-carbon development through support for the private sector''s compliance with the NDCs and the Decarbonisation Plan in Costa Rica
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The companies Proquinal - a member of the Spradling Group - and Swissol, accompanied by government authorities, inaugurated the largest and most innovative project for the storage of
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With support from a team of technical experts and international funding, the Costa Rican government took several foundational steps as it committed to a midcentury net-zero emissions
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INTRODUCTION “Decarbonization is the great challenge of our generation and Costa Rica must be among the first countries to achieve it, if not the first.”
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