• Start year:
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: In operation

The center’s goal is to establish an experimental organic
waste management pilot project for the San Rafael de Heredia
Central District, to contribute to greenhouse gas emissions
reduction.

• Start year: 2008
• Type: Policy/Strategies/Action Plans
• Status: In operation

• Start year:
• Type: Education/Awareness Raising
• Status:

The program’s objective is to develop a training process on
climate change and existing alternatives for canton-wide
CO2 emissions reductions, aimed at community members,
instructors, students, local officials, businesspeople and
farmers.
Participating Organizations
The Universidad Nacional, the Heredia Public Services Company,
CYMA-GTZ, Ciudades Limpias and GTZ

• Start year: 2008
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: In operation

The project’s goal is to propose alternatives to reduce emissions
in San Rafael de Heredia municipal and canton transportation.

• Start year: 2001
• Type: Education/Awareness Raising
• Status: In operation

The cleanup project is designed to improve quality-of-life for
the people of San Rafael via formal and informal environmental
education projects that sensitize and train citizens to
retain and separate recyclable, reusable, and co-processable
solid wastes for the collection center and to help keep the
canton clean.

• Start year: 2001
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: In operation

A collection center was created to receive solid, recyclable,
reusable and co-processable wastes.

• Start year:
• Type: Technical/Infrastructure investment
• Status: In operation

The project’s goal is to contribute to greenhouse gas emissions
management and capture in San Rafael de Heredia
by means of reforestation and restoration in the canton’s
high-risk and degraded areas.