Anuario Centro de Investigación y Estudios Políticos ISSN Impreso: 2215-2806 ISSN electrónico: 2215-2873

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Green capitalism and "clean" energies: Costa Rica as a global decarbonization laboratory
Portada del Anuario del Centro de Investigación y Estudios Políticos, Número 11.
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Keywords

Green capitalism
Decarbonization
Costa Rica
Green exceptionalism
Capitalismo verde
Energías
Descarbonización
Costa Rica
Excepcionalismo verde

How to Cite

Gutiérrez Arguedas, A. (2020). Green capitalism and "clean" energies: Costa Rica as a global decarbonization laboratory. Anuario Centro De Investigación Y Estudios Políticos, (11), 195–228. https://doi.org/10.15517/aciep.v0i11.43238

Abstract

In the last decade, it has been built an imaginary of Costa Rica as a leader in “clean”/renewable energies, as well as in the fight against climate change. This article aims to reflect on the construction of this imaginary, which has reached its maximum expression through the launch, in February 2019, of the National Decarbonization Plan (PND, in Spanish), explicitly promoted as a way of turning the country into a “global decarbonization laboratory”. It is argued that the international image of Costa Rica regarding “clean” energy country is inscribed in a context of global governance of climate change, which, since its origins in the 1990s, has been dominated by a paradigm that seeks to reconcile the environmental/climatic issue with the developmentalist and economistic market thinking: green capitalism. Likewise, it is asserted that Costa Rica plays a strategic role as a “neoliberal eco-laboratory”, a place for experimentation of innovative forms of market-based environmental governance, of which decarbonization represents the clearest example.  

https://doi.org/10.15517/aciep.v0i11.43238
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