By Shane Brennan The dreams of the Global Renewable Energy Education Network Team transformed into reality over winter break when their renewable energy program in Costa Rica launched its pilot session. Students landed at the San Jose airport on Jan. 5 and spent 12 days learning and applying renewable energy ideas, enjoying the environment and giving [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
China, the biggest producer of greenhouse gases, set its first numerical target to slow their growth a day after the U.S. offered its own goal, giving impetus to next month’s global climate-protection talks. China will cut output of carbon dioxide gas per unit of gross domestic product by 40 percent to 45 percent by 2020 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Inaugurated the first phase of wind farm in Guanacaste which began operating 30 of the 55 turbines that make up the wind farm. For year-end planning to finalize the work and complete the nominal power of 50 MW. Also, the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) plans to add another 80 MW more. The wind energy [...]
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