2020年9月30日 · He highlights Costa Rica's new + Natura Strategy, which “consists of an umbrella public policy that encompasses all the initiatives of nature-based solutions, including payments for environmental services and the promotion of new initiatives that create local linkages and sustainable business models”.

2024年12月20日 · Riverbanks in Costa Rica are private property and Rutas Naturbanas coordinates numerous independent property owners and multiple private sector organizations to create 40 km of nature paths. The project has incorporated nature into all steps of planning and design, including the use of low-impact construction methods and structures that limit ...

2019年1月31日 · Costa Rica generates more than 99% of its electricity from renewable sources, with the vast majority from hydroelectric dams. While this is a major achievement, electricity only represents a small proportion of the country’s energy usage, as many homes use gas for heating, and fuel for their cars.

2019年6月13日 · The forests were cleared as crews of lumberjacks freely converted Costa Rica’s natural resources into profits. By the early 1980s, the destruction of two-thirds of the forests had ravaged the habitats of indigenous creatures such as the golden toad and poison dart frog.

2024年4月26日 · The first debt-for-nature agreement was signed between US-based environmental non-profit Conservation International and Bolivia in 1987. Since then, Costa Rica, the Philippines, Belize, Barbados and Seychelles, among others, have all entered into similar agreements – with around 140 swaps in total.

2024年11月14日 · Since 2021, HAC, led by Rita Maria El Zaghloul, former Minister Counsel at Costa Rica’s UN Permanent Mission, has signed up 120 countries to protect 30% of the world’s land and oceans by 2030. It played a pivotal role in securing the 30x30 agreement at the UN Biodiversity Conference, COP15, in 2022.

2020年7月14日 · The Future of Nature and Business, prepared in collaboration with AlphaBeta is the second of three reports in the World Economic Forum’s New Nature Economy series. It provides the practical insights needed to take leadership in shifting towards a much needed nature-positive economy as the world prepares to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and …

Only by fundamentally transforming these systems can we shift from destructive human activity to a nature-positive economy. The World Economic Forum’s New Nature Economy Report II sets out a range of transitions that will reverse nature loss and pull us back from the brink. Without these changes, the world will suffer irreversible destruction ...

2024年9月25日 · Cities in China and Costa Rica are using greenways to shape urban mobility and strengthen connections between citizens and their surrounding environment. How nature-positive cities are helping to create a more sustainable and resilient world

2023年6月20日 · This has led to a 1.7 percentage-point increase in overall gender parity since last year. Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Jamaica register the highest parity scores in this region and Belize, Paraguay and Guatemala the lowest. At the current rate of progress, Latin America and the Caribbean will take 53 years to attain full gender parity.