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Environmental leadership in costa rica

PLAN 545, 2012 Jessie Singer. Environmental leadership in costa rica. Outline. Challenges for environmental protection in developing countries Costa Rica’s leadership role PSA Program Carbon-neutral by 2021 Moving forward. Challenges for developing countries.

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Environmental leadership in costa rica

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  1. PLAN 545, 2012 Jessie Singer Environmental leadership in costarica

  2. Outline • Challenges for environmental protection in developing countries • Costa Rica’s leadership role • PSA Program • Carbon-neutral by 2021 • Moving forward

  3. Challenges for developing countries • They myth of poverty & environmental degradation • Population growth & urbanization • Rapid industrialization/ movement of “dirty” industry • Lack of infrastructure & technologies • Fractured and/or weak governance & lack of transparency • Financing Adaptation Atlas (http://www.adaptationatlas.org/index.cfm)

  4. Leadership in Environmental Conservation • Conservation ethos rooted in a history of environmental activism & education • International support to protect a country with 4% of total world terrestrial biodiversity • Well-educated citizens & culture of activism Alvaro Ugalde Mario Boza

  5. Leadership in Environmental Conservation Green Initiatives: • Ecotourism market • 90% + electricity generated from renewable resources • PSA Program • Carbon-neutral by 2021

  6. Pagosporserviciosambientales(PSA Program) • Established 1997 & managed by FONAFIFO • Financed mainly by allocating 3.5% of revenues from a gas tax • Based on services from forest ecosystems • 2005 = 270,000 ha enrolled in program (approx. 19% of land)

  7. Impact of the PSA Program?

  8. Impact of the PSA Program?

  9. Carbon-neutral by 2021 • Laws and incentives • “C-neutral” label • Carbon offsets

  10. Moving forward with carbon-neutrality & environmental leadership?

  11. Moving forward with carbon-neutrality & environmental leadership?

  12. Resources Long, C. Costa Rica’s challenge: A pioneer in eco-tourism, the nation faces huge hurdles to going carbon-neutral, including the multi-billion dollar price tag. Latin Trade 19 (2001): 22-24. Lovgren, St. Costa Rica aims to be 1st carbon-neutral country. National Geographic News. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080307-costa-rica.html . Accessed February 27, 2012. nef. Costa Rica tops Happy Planet index. The Un-Happy Planet Index 2.0. http://www.happyplanetindex.org/news/archive/news-2.html. Accessed February 27, 2012. Pagiola, S. Payments for environmental services in Costa Rica. Ecological Economics 65 (2008): 712-724. Sanchez-Azofeifa, G.A., Pfaff, A., Robalino, A.A., & Boomhower, J.P. Costa Rica’s payment for environmental services program: Intention, implementation, and impact. Conservation Biology 21 (2007): 1165-1173. Steinberg, P.F. Environmental Leadership in Developing Countries: Transnational Relations & Biodiversity Policy in Costa Rica &Bolivia. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2001. World Bank. State and trends of the carbon market 2011. World Bank Environmental Department. Washington, DC. 2011.

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