Costa Rica Plans To Use Electricity Instead Of Fossil Fuels For Transportation - President

Costa Rica plans to abandon fossil fuels and switch to using electricity for transportation in the near future, the country's President Carlos Alvarado Quesada said Monday.

PARIS (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 12th November, 2018) Costa Rica plans to abandon fossil fuels and switch to using electricity for transportation in the near future, the country's President Carlos Alvarado Quesada said Monday.

"We are planning in the near future to change [from] the use of the fossil fuels to electricity for transportation, and that will give a message on how the world can decarbonize. In Costa Rica we are starting to think new ways of working with agriculture and working with livestock to reduce its impact. I believe it's something that has to be on the table of [COP24]. We will work to reduce emission, but also to make us more competitive," Alvarado told reporters on the sidelines of the Paris Peace Forum.

The upcoming Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24) is set to be held in Poland on December 3-14.

"Today's world needs multilateralism for climate change. There is no one-country solution for the situation. You need several parties having discussions, but also having common action. That's what multilateralism works for," the Costa Rican president added.

In May, Alvarado said that he intended to make Costa Rica the first carbon-neutral state by 2021. The country's aim was not to ban fossil fuels, but to phase them out through new policies and incentives, according to the country's Minister of Environment and Energy Carlos Manuel Rodriguez.