December 9th, 2013, Mr. Nobuteru Ishihara, Minister of the Environment of Japan and H.E. Dr. René Castro Salazar, Minister of Environment and Energy of the Republic of Costa Rica, signed the bilateral document of the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) in Tokyo, Japan. As a result, the JCM will be officially launched in the Republic of Costa Rica, the ninth country after Mongolia, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, Maldives, Viet Nam, Lao PDR, and Indonesia.

Signed document
“Memorandum of Cooperation on the Low Carbon Growth between the Japanese side and the Costa Rican side”