Costa Rica’s newly-elected President Carlos Alvarado Quesada announced a plan to end the use of fossil fuels in transport in May 2018. No date has yet been set for a full phase out of fossil fuels in transport, but the plan should be ready by 2021. Transport is the country’s main source of climate changing emissions with 64% of Costa Rica’s emissions come from energy use, and more than two thirds of that is from transport. The announcement marks the first time a Costa Rican leader has backed such a move.

In February 2019, Costa Rica published a long-term decarbonisation plan with the overall to decarbonise by 2050. The plan contains several medium and long-term targets on transport, ranging from increasing the share of public transport to electrification of all modes. Costa Rica’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) anticipates an increase in electricity consumption in the transport sector. Most of the proposed emissions abatement measures hinge on a greater use of electric mobility