Payments for environmental services in Costa Rica: from Rio to Rio and beyond
Descripción
This briefing is based on: Porras, I., Miranda, M., Barton, D., Chacón-Cascante, A. 2012. De Rio a Rio+: Lecciones de 20 años de experiencia en servicios ambientales en Costa Rica.
Shaping Sustainable Markets, IIED, London.
Resumen
Costa Rica has shown how a small developing country can grab the bull of environmental degradation by the horns, and reverse one of the highest deforestation rates in Latin America to become the poster child of environment success. Key to its achievement has been the country’s payments for environmental services (PES) programme, which began in 1997 and which many countries are now looking to learn from, especially as water markets and schemes to reward forest conservation and reduced deforestation (REDD+) grow. Within Costa Rica too, there is a need to first
reflect on how the contexts for, and challenges facing, PES have changed; and continue building a robust programme that can ensure the coming decade is as successful as the past one.
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