MINAE (Ministry of the environment and energy)
Mission:
Contribute to sustainable development in Costa Rica through the conservation and wise use of natural resources, to improve the quality of life and development.
Strategic Environmental Actions:
1. Environmental Sectors accept this new strategy for sustainable development of the country:
- Facilitating sustainable access to resources for various sectors (simplification of procedures)
- Promoting tourism development in harmony with nature.
- Ordering the use of national territory to meet the development goals set out.
- Incorporating the implementation of international commitments into national, sectoral and institutional.
2. Upgrade the capacity and cross-sectoral planning as a basis for consolidating the minister leadership in the sector.
- Consolidating a formal mechanism for intersectoral coordination (Sector AETHM)
- MINAE upgrading to meet more effectively the environmental management issues (project loan with the IDB).
- Promoting reorganization of sector institutions.
- Strengthen transparency and accountability (clear metrics) in forming the National Development Plan.
3. Recover the environment, agricultural production and sustainable industrial and low environmental impact.
- Actively participating in the Management Plan for the Greater Metropolitan Area Plan and Urban Development.
- Strengthening the strategic environmental assessment in municipal regulatory plans.
- Consolidating and preserving a national agri-rural development.
- Modernizing the standards and procedures for environmental impact assessment.
4. Implement a national strategy focused on sustainable management of resources and improving environmental quality, along with a proactive environmental policy as an integral part of the country’s foreign policy.
- Promoting a new approach to conservation based on the multifunctionality of ecosystems and species.
- Updating the National Biodiversity Strategy and make it the centerpiece of the work SINAC.
- Incorporating a National Program for management of coastal resources within the National Biodiversity Strategy.
- Developing a national system of environmental quality management focused on managing emissions and discharges.
- Building a joint agenda with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs priorities of environmental policy.
5. Promote and strengthen public and private use, management and conservation of the environment contributing to the welfare of communities and developing local capacities.
- Strengthen the autonomy and strengthen the financial sustainability of the Program of Payments for Environmental Services and the National System of Conservation Areas.
- Consolidating Projects Grant and Loan Commerce 2 (World Bank-GEF) Fund for Sustainable Biodiversity
- Tourism in ASP (IDB), Removing Barriers to the sustainability of conservation in protected areas (are referring to the current legislation)
- Develop a funding strategy to build long-term biodiversity conservation in the country.
- Strengthen efforts to seize opportunities of the international carbon market.
- Promoting concrete actions to revive the productive forest sector.
6. Enhance national capacities for adaptation and mitigation of impacts of climate change.
- Develop a National Climate Change Program.
- Strengthen construction of physical infrastructure and technological disaster prevention hidrometeoro logical extreme phenomena.
- Consolidate a vision of a country and inter-agency coordination mechanism to address the challenges of climate change on various sectors of the country (energy, land use, transportation, waste management, etc.)
- Modernization of research and climate forecasts as an essential tool to support emergency care.
Project Green Jungle is proud to work with and for MINAE’s goals and mission in Costa Rica.
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