100% Renewable Energy for Costa Rica

摘要: The World Future Council and La Ruta del Clima/Costa Rica commissioned this report, financed by the One Earth Foundation USA to provide input into Costa Rica’s plan to achieve 100% renewable energy. Costa Rica is a global leader when it comes to ensuring energy production comes from renewable energy sources. With a 98% share of renewables in its electricity matrix and solid achievements to prevent deforestation—around 25% of the country’s land area is in protected National Parks and other protected areas—Costa Rica is at the forefront environmental sustainability, climate action and driving the renewable energy transition.Wanting to go even further, Costa Rica has adopted the National Decarbonization Plan in February 2019 to achieve a net-zero emissions economy by 2050, in line with the objectives of the Paris Climate Change Agreement. The planned measures, activities and improvements also form part of the country’s extended Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) that Costa Rica will present in 2020 to the UNFCCC to demonstrate and strengthen its commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and participate in the global effort to avoid a temperature rise above 1.5 degrees Celsius with respect to the pre-industrial era.