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Biofuels Make a Comeback

TCRN STAFF — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 17:59:03 +0000

Global production of biofuels increased 17% in 2010 to reach an all-time high of 105 billion liters, up from 90 billion liters in 2009. High oil prices, a global economic rebound, and new laws and mandates in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, and the United States, among other countries, are all factors behind the surge in [...]

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Nature Air Receives Award

Lance Harrell — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:00:33 +0000

by TCRN Staff Action taken by the Costa Rican Airline Nature Air to offset their carbon footprint has been recognized and rewarded by National Geographic. According to the cable news agency EFE, National Geographic Washington announced Tuesday the projects that were selected in the competition on tourism innovation for the benefit of local communities and [...]

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Costa Rica one step closer to being carbon neutral

Lance Harrell — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:26:42 +0000

by Chrissie Long Costa Rica’s carbon neutrality goal received a stamp of approval from the United States government on Wednesday, when embassy officials announced the opening of an energy efficiency center in the Central Valley. The center, which will be run out of the University of Costa Rica, “will advance the path toward a cleaner [...]

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Eco-friendly countries combine to demand action at climate talks

Lance Harrell — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:50:30 +0000

A group comprising six environmentally-friendly nations has urged policymakers to agree on a deal at the Copenhagen Climate Change summit. The consortium is made up of Costa Rica, Cape Verde, Iceland, Singapore, Slovenia and the United Arab Emirates, according to China’s Xinhua news agency. In a joint statement, the six countries explained it is extremely [...]

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Denmark earmarks millions for environmental protection

Lance Harrell — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:41:34 +0000

By Mike McDonald The Copenhagen Climate Change Summit’s host nation, Denmark, threw the first concrete financial aid figures on the negotiating table on Wednesday that could help countries such as Costa Rica protect their environment. Pending a firm global deal and promises of fair aid numbers from other developed nations, the Danish government announced it [...]

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Forest-saving deal could lift climate summit hopes

Lance Harrell — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:00:23 +0000

By MICHAEL CASEY BANGKOK — In a potentially valuable boost to fighting climate change, rich and poor countries are close to an agreement to end the destruction of the world’s forests in 20 years, government negotiators said. It depends, however, on whether consensus on an overarching climate accord is reached by the 192 countries at [...]

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Costa Rica’s answers to fight climate change

Lance Harrell — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:00:37 +0000

The tiny country of Costa Rica has giant plans to help change the world for the better, but for that to happen, serious issues need to be looked at closely. Next month, the world will converge in Copenhagen for the United Nation Climate Change Conference and Costa Rica is proposing a similar carbon capture program [...]

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Tiny “carbon neutral” club struggles with costs

Lance Harrell — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:00:09 +0000

By Alister Doyle Norway, Costa Rica and the Maldives are struggling with high costs and technological hurdles to stay in the world’s most exclusive club for fighting climate change — seeking to cut net greenhouse gas emissions to zero. The United Nations is praising their “carbon neutrality” targets before a U.N. summit on Dec. 7-18 [...]

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Greenpeace urges Obama to employ political credibility

Lance Harrell — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:45:17 +0000

By David Smith The new head of Greenpeace has challenged Barack Obama to agree a binding treaty at the UN Copenhagen climate summit or risk inflaming anti-American sentiment around the world. Dr Kumi Naidoo, the first African to lead the environmental activist group, said he was not prepared to tolerate “spin and trickery” from negotiators [...]

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Copenhagen still “golden opportunity” for CO2 market

Lance Harrell — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:00:37 +0000

By Michael Szabo LONDON – A U.N. summit in Copenhagen next month is unlikely to agree on a new global climate treaty, but carbon market players are urging delegates to seize the opportunity to agree reforms to the $33 billion trade in carbon offsets. There is a growing global consensus that talks in the Danish [...]

Costa Rica’s Carbon Neutral Goals

Lance Harrell — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:00:05 +0000

By Alex Leff SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Long heralded as a tiny country with a tenacious commitment to bettering the environment, Costa Rica now intends to win the greenest of honors: to become the first country to go entirely carbon neutral by 2021. From the northern Caribbean canals of Tortuguero to the lush southwest [...]

International Day of Climate Action a Success in Costa Rica

Lance Harrell — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:00:25 +0000

By Lance Harrell On Saturday, October 24th, Costa Rica demonstrated its solidarity with 180 other countries by hosting some of the 5200 events of the International Day of Climate Action, which calls for strong action and bold leadership for dealing with the present climatic crisis. This extremely successful event was the brainchild of 350.org, an [...]

Carbon Controversies in Costa Rica

Lance Harrell — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:48:30 +0000

Does the Model Central American Country Live Up to its Big Green Reputation, Particularly When It Comes to Climate Control? Everyone needs something to believe in, and for many Latin American progressives, that something for years has been Costa Rica. The country has long been cited as a beacon of progressive tranquility in a region [...]

Empowering local communities through carbon credits

Lance Harrell — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:55:23 +0000

Under the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), carbon offset schemes are limited to afforestation and reforestation. Heavily forested countries like Brazil, Cameroon, Costa Rica, DR Congo, Gabon, Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea, which all together contain 80% of the world’s remaining tropical forests, formed the Forestry Eight to challenge the failure to extend [...]