Costa Rica Inc. – An Environmental Leader
Google has been a technological leader in the 21st Century. One of the quantum leaps of Google has been to make information is available to everyone around the globe at the snap of a finger. It’s hard to go back and imagine how it would be without Google.
Another revolution has been Google commitment to help builds a clean energy future.
Google believes that we need to accelerate the development and deployment of cost-effective energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies in order to achieve deep and rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
To this end Google advocates:
- Use energy more efficiently, allowing us to do more with less (Its also the cheapest way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.) Investments in efficiency are often win-win, sometimes paying for themselves in just months
- Require that utilities produce a specific percentage of electricity from renewable energy
- Spur the innovation necessary to meet today's critical environmental, economic and security challenges by investing on renewable energy, energy efficiency and advanced transportation technologies.
Given the fact that that more than close to 80% of the Electric Energy in the United States comes non renewable sources, Google said it would spend hundreds of millions of dollars in renewable energies to reduce Google’s own mounting energy costs to run its vast data centers, while also fighting climate change and helping to reduce the world’s dependence on fossil fuels.
Companies in Costa Rica that pledge to fight climate change, only need to plug in to the electric grid and take advantage of the fact that over the last ten years Costa Rica has produced between 91% to 99% of its Electric Energy from renewable sources including Hydroelectric, Geothermal, Wind and Biomass.
Costa Rica has built over years the infrastructure to help its business community lead the efforts to figth Climate Change.
Manfred Kissling
Publisher
mkissling@obsamericas.com
