Costa Rica this year added 727 new electric vehicles for a total of 3,106 registered in the country.

When the National Decarbonization Plan was inaugurated last year, modernizing the country's transportation infrastructure was listed as a pillar of the initiative. 

It is becoming cheaper to invest in new solar, wind and hydroelectric plants.

MOPT seeks to replace all traffic lights in the Greater Metropolitan Area with solar-powered systems by 2022.

The Costa Rican women were awarded scholarships from the Government of India to enroll in Barefoot College Institute’s Solar Lighting program in Rajasthan for six months.

The bill proposes a series of tax incentives for promoting the purchase of new electric cars and plug-in hybrids, including the elimination of the sales, selective consumption and customs taxes.

Power generation using fossil fuels represents only 1.88 percent of Costa Rica's 2016 total, the Costa Rican Electricity Institute reported.

Past experience would suggest our assembly is just settling in for a nice long back-and-forth on electric cars. The country can't afford such a delay.

Karla Hill from Venus Motors on why she moved the company from Bend, Oregon, to Guanacaste: “We can be a drop in the bucket in the U.S. but we can make a real difference in Costa Rica.”

Used cooking grease from 30 restaurants at Santa Teresa de Cóbano, one of the most popular beach destinations in Guanacaste, is providing a local police station with biogas for its kitchen.