The Costa Rican government will relaunch an old energy project to replace fossil fuels with biofuels, according to El País. The initiative is in response to a request made by the country’s Vice President, Stephen Brenner, to the Legislative Assembly to deal with the Fuel Energy Transition Initiative, which was proposed more than a year ago.
According to a press release, the so-called 24,079 Recovery Project will replace the use of diesel fuel in heavy transportation with biomethane, a gas produced by the decomposition of organic agricultural, livestock and industrial waste, in the first phase.
The strategy consists of a phased, sector-by-sector gradual replacement of diesel, financed by the United Nations Joint Fund for Sustainable Development Goals and the Industrial Development Plan.
