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Costa Rica has a strong potential for the development of Marine Energy, through its territorial expansion in Mar and have a Pacific Coast.
This was made clear by the Expert of the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad, Rodrigo Rojas, who shared a presentation on the legal framework, ocean governance and coastal marine energy development in the country during the First Congress of Environmental Law.
Costa Rica is ten times larger than Earth Sea and its high potential temperature gradient in the Pacific provide the country of positives factors enter into this kind of energy.
Moreover, as policy, the country has always sought to renew its energy cleanly, looks for options in exploitation biomass, wind, solar.
Rojas stressed that energy Marina must be considered in planning for coastal marine converge the interests of many sectors of the exclusive use of resources in those areas.
It also recommends that the recently-approved marine coastal, marine policy must consider energy as a resource.
The main objective of the Congress of Environmental Law was to review the legislation that currently has the country on environmental issues.
The Bar Association with the Ministry of Environment and Energy, Vice Mares, the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad, the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), the Faculty of Law of the University of Costa Rica; were the organizers of this conference, in late November.
SOURCE: BBC, San Jose.
