The ER program supports Costa Rica’s national REDD+ strategy and its broader ambition to achieve a low-carbon economy in a resilient environment. The program is helping expand the country’s payment for environmental services program and contributing to other key national programs for sustainable forest management, fire management, landscape restoration, and the National Decarbonization Plan. The program is also strengthening the governance of national protected areas, which cover 26 percent of the country’s territory. Marked by a strong social component, the program is working to increase the participation of all stakeholders to address the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation, including Indigenous Peoples and private landowners, enabling emission reductions from an additional 20 percent of the program’s forest area. View Country Profile.