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Convention and the Designated National Authority
to the Clean Development Mechanism
(CDM), with a facilitative role that seeks to
promote the participation of public and private
sectors by using this mechanism of the UN-
FCCC and the Kyoto Protocol to open new
opportunities.
Other entities related to the implementation of
the country’s obligations in this area are the National
System of Conservation Areas (SINAC),
the National Forestry Financing Fund (FONAFI-
FO), the National Forestry Board, and the Costa
Rican Association on Joint Implementation
(ASOCIC), in addition to a series of sectoral actors
who have joined these efforts in support of
the National Climate Change Strategy.
The objectives of the Convention were incorporated
into the National Development Plan 2006
- 2010 and thus, an essential step towards creating
a national policy to facilitate planning and
implementation of coordinated sectoral and institutional
actions on this matter was taken. In
this context, the country has committed itself to
developing a National Climate Change Strategy
as first step to the implementation of the National
Climate Change Program.
In turn, the “Peace with Nature” initiative, which
arises as a response by President Oscar Arias
and a group of professionals on the growing
concerns on the country and planet-wide environmental
degradation, places climate change
as a priority area for action, having acquired the
Government of Costa Rica the commitment to
becoming carbon neutral by 2021.
The National Climate Change Strategy requests
all public and autonomous institutions and local
governments to structure and put in practice a
short, mid, and long-term action plan with clear
goals, that takes into account its four pillars and
six axis. The fundamental pillars are shared
responsibility, opportunity, threat, and capacity
and legitimacy development. The National
Agenda, with a clear orientation towards action,
has been defined around six strategic axes or
components, the main of which are Mitigation
and Adaptation; the other four transversal components
are: Metrics, Capacity Building and Technology
Transfer, Education, Culture and Public
Awareness, and Financing (Fig. i.1).
Figure i.1 National Climate Change Strategy
Source: ENCC, 2008
Executive Summary