GRMA climate and disaster risk assessment landscape: Costa Rica

The Climate and Disaster Risk Assessment Landscape Series by the Global Risk Modelling Alliance (GRMA) aims to provide a summary of available climate and disaster risk analysis and information in GRMA partner countries. Each publication summarises, for one country, the availability of global and local sources of data, models and risk estimates, climate change analysis and impacts, and highlights gaps in risk information at the time of writing. 

More information on the Global Shield against Climate Risks initiative and its in-country programme, including the full stocktake and gap analysis of the CDRFI landscape in Costa Rica, can be found on the respective country page here. This country brief may include supplemental information to the Global Shield Stocktake due to subsequent work undertaken in the GRMA programme. The review of Costa Rica was conducted as part of the GRMA programme in Costa Rica. In 2023, the Ministry of Finance of Costa Rica requested for support from the GRMA, mandating Superintendencia de Seguros Costa Rica (SUGESE) as the focal point. The GRMA is providing EUR 1.6 million in support for climate risk analytics and capability development for the agriculture, tourism and infrastructure sectors. The programme’s priorities were co-defined in partnership with SUGESE and Costa Rica’s GRMA Technical Working Group.