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Published Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Costa Rica
recognized as a leader intaking actions against climate change By the A.M. Costa Rica staff On Monday, the country received a recognition as a leader in combating climate change, according to the America Economia Journal study. Applying habits to help preservation of the environment into our daily lives is important. People have to modify their habits, change the way we consume, and even change our schedules, according to the study. The importance of climate change will make the states' policy priorities change dramatically, from the health sector to that of energy security. The challenge will affect international relations around global cooperation. According to the study, the traditional way of doing politics will be left behind, such as the extremely poor way in which the crisis in the Amazon has been faced, the fires in Australia, the expansion of the Panama Canal for global trade, the responses give to the youth rebellion, to name a few examples. "The global challenge is still terrible underestimated by our leaders and probably by the public as well," according to the study. The First Latin American Sustainability Ranking measures the variables of political decisions among the countries of the region. This first effort is based on the available data that shows the current state of sustainability in a series of dimensions, which designed a regional index, according to the study by America Economia. The rankings look at 11 countries in the region in the following categories: greenhouse gas emissions, energy matrix, biodiversity and forest management, agricultural pollution, water resource management, air quality in urban areas and environmental taxes. The largest performance gaps between countries are found in the dimensions of greenhouse gas emissions, environmental taxes, energy matrix and management of biodiversity and forests. The ranking is led by Costa Rica, Uruguay and Brazil, which have a combination of factors that allow them to accumulate, on average, the best scores. Costa Rica placed scored the highest overall with an 85.1 out of 100, among all Latin American countries. Costa Rica's greenhouse gas emission is 214 for every million dollars of GDP. The country scored the lowest with a 0.63 in the category of energy intensity of production, which is how much energy the country spends in production. This is the lowest of the countries included in the study. In the category of electricity generation from renewable sources, Costa Rica has 99.7% overall. In the category of concentration of pollution in urban areas, which is the fine material that directly affects people's health and impacts life expectancy, like smoke, Costa Rica placed fourth with 16.7 points. In the category of variation of forest reserves in the years 2007 to 2017, Costa Rica placed third with 11 points. In the category of environmental taxes, Costa Rica placed first with the equivalent of 2.3% of GDP. However, in the category of pesticide use in agricultural crops, Costa Rica is in last place with 22.9 points. According to the specialists, the sustainability ranking is made up of seven dimensions in which quantitative information on standardized and supported indicators was included for each of the eleven countries and whose latest measurement was published after 2016. More information on the ranking can be found on the America Economia website. -------------------------------- How could Costa Rican authorities improve the category of pesticide use in agricultural production? We would like to know your thoughts on this story. Send your comments to news@amcostarica.com |
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