With the implementation of the National Decarbonization Plan (2018-2050), Costa Rica will receive benefits -especially savings- amounting to US$19.5 billion. This was stated by the President of the Republic of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado Quesada, during his inaugural speech at PreCOP25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This week, the Central American country is hosting the preparatory meeting for the 25th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP25), which will be held in Santiago, Chile, from December 2 to 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The study referred to by the Costa Rican president was prepared by the University of Costa Rica, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Rand Corporation, the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (Sweden) and the Tecnol\u00f3gico de Monterrey (Mexico).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The objective of this research was to analyze the impact on the Costa Rican economy of the implementation of the National Decarbonization Plan, presented in February 2019, which includes goals in 10 thematic areas such as public, private and cargo transportation, as well as sustainable and clean production in industry, smart cities and digitalization, waste management, agriculture, livestock and forestry resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBy measuring the first three axes of the Plan until 2050, related to public transportation, private transportation and freight transportation, the researchers\u201d findings indicate that the country will obtain a net benefit of 19.5 billion dollars by making the changes indicated therein,\" the President said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He went on to explain that these figures are obtained by adding several items together. For example, in terms of electricity infrastructure to enable the electrification of the transportation sector, the country must invest almost US$6 billion, but will obtain a benefit of US$11.1 billion as a result of lower operating costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere we have a first gain, which we could call direct, for 5.2 billion dollars net by 2050,\u201d explained Alvarado and added: \u201cTo this we must add benefits in terms of health, higher productivity due to lower dams and avoided accidents, which represent a total of 14.3 billion dollars by 2050, according to experts\u201d projections.\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe bottom line is clear: environmental ambition is not only ethically right for present and future generations, it is cost-effective. Each country will make its own estimates, in light of its experiences and circumstances, but the decarbonization laboratory called Costa Rica can prove that ambitious decarbonization goals are achievable without harming sustainable, human and economic development,\u201d the president emphasized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We share with you this photo gallery prepared by Yannina Cordero, fellow of the Latin American Media Coverage Program COP25, on the inaugural echo of the Pre-COP25. The Latin American COP25 Media Coverage Program is an effort coordinated by LatinClima, Journalists for the Planet, The Stanley Foundation and the Regional Network on Climate Change and Decision Making - UNITWIN Program of UNESCO, with the support of Iniciativa Clim\u00e1tica de M\u00e9xico.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Con la implementaci\u00f3n del Plan Nacional de Descarbonizaci\u00f3n (2018-2050), Costa Rica percibir\u00e1 beneficios -sobre todo ahorros- que alcanzan los 19.500 millones de d\u00f3lares. As\u00ed lo enunci\u00f3 el Presidente de la Rep\u00fablica de Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado Quesada, durante su discurso inaugural en la PreCOP25. Esta semana, el pa\u00eds centroamericano es el anfitri\u00f3n de la reuni\u00f3n […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[],"pais":[],"tipo-de-nota":[],"formato":[],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tendencias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nexosmasuno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nexosmasuno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nexosmasuno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nexosmasuno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nexosmasuno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nexosmasuno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nexosmasuno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nexosmasuno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nexosmasuno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nexosmasuno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"pais","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nexosmasuno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pais?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"tipo-de-nota","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nexosmasuno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tipo-de-nota?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"formato","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nexosmasuno.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/formato?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}