📋 Tender Overview
GEF Project ID
11015
Country
Costa Rica
Implementing Agencies
United Nations Development Programme
Approval FY
2023
Status
Project Approved
Region
Latin America and Caribbean
Executing Agencies
Ministry of Energy and Environment (MINAE); UNDP Costa Rica
GEF Period
GEF - 7
Project Type
Full-size Project
Focal Areas
Chemicals and Waste
Funding Source
GEF Trust Fund
Description: The GEF financed project (Grant: USD 4,000,000; Co-financing: USD 23,522,457), implemented by the Ministry of Environment and Energy (MINAE) with support of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), aims to reduce the emissions/releases, minimize exposure of human beings to UPOPs in strategic sectors including plastics and to advance the Stockholm Convention in Costa Rica.
The project is structured in in four components and the following main outcomes:
• Government and relevant stakeholders involved, and POPs environmental sound management (ESM) capacities strengthened.
• Unintentional POPs (UPOPs) emissions and control systems strengthened.
• Plastics management systems strengthened.
• BAT/BEP for the reduction of use and consumption of plastics and management of plastics waste.
• Awareness-raised, lessons learned, and knowledge managed.
The project will provide Global Environmental Benefits in terms of reducing and eliminating 30 MT of PCB contaminated materials; 34 gTEq of emissions from biomass burning and plastics management , benefiting 5,180,000 inhabitants of the country.
