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Starting next Tuesday October 8 Costa Rica will receive representatives from all regions of the planet to take action against what the Secretary General of the United Nations Antnio Guterres has called an eminent ecological disaster the crisis Climate.This is PreCOP25 which will be held on October 8 9 and 10 at the National Convention Center in Cariari canton of Bethlehem. It is the prelude where conditions are prepared to generate the agreements at the United Nations Conference of the Parties COP against climate change which will be held in Chile in December COP25.In total about 1500 people will participate including 700 international representatives from 86 countries and 800 nationals. There will be about 70 activities between forums talks conferences round tables political dialogues and high-level panels.The representatives of national governments will be added key delegates of the negotiation process representatives of international organizations local governments communities civil society and the private sector as well as Costa Ricans interested in climate action that they will learn And share experiences. The PreCOP has been constituted in that last great meeting prior to the COP where the processes of negotiations and political agreements are refined said the Minister of Environment and Energy of Costa Rica and host of the event Carlos Manuel Rodrguez.He acknowledged that although they are very complex negotiations there are two important issues on which the countries of the planet have agreed the need to abandon the actions that cause the climate crisis and the urgency to adapt to the damage that climate change already causes. With these two principles the countries of the world are looking for how to implement measures.That is why Costa Rica decided to bet on an unconventional PreCOP focused on climate action. Usually these meetings are small events with a hundred negotiators. However the best available science points out that humans are falling short of our efforts.The search for solutions to accelerate decarbonization and resilience will revolve in three thematic areas cities-sustainable mobility nature-based solutions and the so-called blue economy. To this are added two transversal thematic areas on the one hand gender and human rights and on the other the financing and mobilization of financial resources to achieve the desired transformations.At this time we must concentrate we have commitments to implement action and that is where Costa Rica proposes an unconventional PreCOP to concentrate on sharing experiences on how countries are going to implement actions that will reverse the impacts of Climate Change added the head of the MINAE.Rodrguez also recalled that in the Paris 2015 agreement all countries promised to reduce their emissions and submit a long-term proposal as Costa Rica did with its Decarbonization Plan. Today only 7 countries have it and Costa Rica was the first country in the world.Gathered under the Paris AgreementAfter the worldwide disappointments in many previous conferences the entire planet saw a light 4 years ago at COP21 in France when more than 190 countries managed to reach an agreement to officially transition from a planetary economic model based on petroleum derivatives to one focused on clean energies that do not pollute the atmosphere.Thereafter the world had a route drawn up and based on agreements in the race against time to save themselves from an ecological and humanitarian catastrophe. Science has repeatedly shown that sea levels are rising coral reefs are dying and the planet is beginning to see the fatal impact of climate change on health due to air pollution heat waves and Food safety risks.The science is becoming clearer. In October of last year the United Nations report was published that warned about the dangers of overcoming a temperature increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius. In May a global report was presented by the IPBES expert group that warns that one million species are in danger of extinction and at the end of September the United Nations report on the health of oceans and ice zones.One of the main purposes of the PreCOP is precisely to achieve a great amount of progress and agreements that can be incorporated to deepen and strengthen the Paris Agreement seeking concrete actions against the emission of greenhouse gases.In addition to constituting one of the main events within the international climate agenda PreCOP represents the space that Costa Rica will have as an organizing country to put its vision on the table of the concert of nations to accelerate the fight against climate change.Costa Rica is internationally known for being one of the leading nations of the group of ambitious countries. That is a group of nations that understand that actions against climate change must be done more quickly and with higher goals in order to save the planet.In order to increase the ambition in the commitments of the countries and the climatic action derived from the agreements reached in Paris Costa Rica focuses the organization of a PreCOP oriented to the climatic action and the ambition that positively promotes the negotiation process and that contributes to achieve specific objectives by the year 2020.This is why the country will have the PreCOP25 Ambition Summit as a complement to the negotiation session an agenda that will concentrate high-level activities that will bring together leaders from the public business financial social international and national opinion makers. The intention is to create a platform for the interaction of various international actors and decision makers who collectively can contribute to raising the planetary goals in this area.
