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Costa Rica

Climate targets: Economy-wide

    • A maximum of 9,374,000 tCO2eq net emissions by 2030
      Economy-wide | Fixed level target | Target year: 2030 | Base year: N/A
    • That Costa Rica elaborated in 2015, a mitigation objective long-term plan for the year 2050, designed on the basis of the best science available at that time and its global responsibility to move towards global carbon neutrality by the second half of the century, which was included in his Contribution Nationally Determined (NDC).
      Economy-wide | Target year: 2050 | Base year: 2015
    • In 2007, Costa Rica launched its commitment to be carbon neutral by 2021, a goal included in the National Climate Change Strategy (2009) and in its Plan for Action (2013).
      Economy-wide | Target year: 2021 | Base year: 2007
    • net zero 2050
      Economy-wide | Fixed level target | Target year: 2050 | Base year: 2018
      Source:

      Executive | 2018

For further analysis of the NDC, see Costa Rica country profile on ClimateWatch logo
from the Grantham Research Institute
from the Grantham Research Institute
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