Selected teams prepare their expertise and innovation to manage climate refuges in Costa Rica
Four teams of technical organizations are already preparing and participating in the Open Innovation program after being selected for their innovative ideas related to the management of climate refuges for biodiversity identified by the National System of Conservation Areas (SINAC).
First in-person session at SINAC. © Hub for Innovation, Climate and Biodiversity
Let's get to work! The participation process finalized in November 2023, to announce the selected ideas in January and start with the first in-person session this February 2024. The teams presented their ideas in order to develop a space for discussion with the selected projects of the Open Innovation call to identify opportunities, challenges and risks of each one.
Teams
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FECOP: Marine Oasis: Marine climate refuges in the Pacific of Costa Rica.
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TEC and Green Xpo: Microclimates in Costa Rica's climate refuges.
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CATIE: Local management for functional climate refuges in Costa Rica: tools for adaptive management.
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ImagineXYZ and BIOMATEC: Integrated platform for the management and monitoring of climate refuges.
Next steps
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Immersive innovation workshop,
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Technical tour in Costa Rica,
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Innovation support to devise solutions.
Previous stage
With a vision of biodiversity adaptation to climate variables, SINAC identified places, called climate refuges, where these changes could occur more slowly, and which represent an opportunity for species to carry out their processes of adjusting to new habitats.
To meet the management needs, the German Development Cooperation Agency in Costa Rica, GIZ, together with SINAC and the National Meteorological Institute (IMN) of the Ministry of Environment and Energy (MINAE), launched the open innovation call -Innovación Abierta in Spanish- in search of an international participation of technical organizations that propose innovative solutions for the management of climate refuges.
The program was born as an initiative of the Hub for Innovation, Climate and Biodiversity of the GIZ ACCIÓN Clima project, in its mission tosupport public institutions in the search for innovative solutions to achieve the goals set out in its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), the commitment in terms of climate action that the country assumed before the international community in the framework of the Paris Agreement.
- Country: Costa Rica
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- Contact:
Aslhy Torres Ureña
