This report focuses on the status of renewable energy technologies in Central America and analyses the conditions for their advancement in the future. It identifies important knowledge and information gaps and evaluates key finance and policy barriers, making suggestions for how to overcome both. As such, this study is a "roadmap of a roadmap"--it scopes the improvements that need to happen with regard to the key components of a sustainable energy system and establishes the necessary methodology and groundwork for comprehensive national energy strategies.
Central America
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The study establishes a macroeconomic scenario without climate change trend against which the cost of the phenomenon is measured. It uses "bottom up" impact analysis of key sectors and areas such as agriculture, water resources, extreme events and ecosystem services, making later an economic valuation as a function of GDP. Challenges and options for adaptation and low carbon development options are explored.
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FENERCAÍ(Increased use of renewable energy resources in Central America) was a USAID-funded program, started in Central America, with the goal of providing enterprise development services to potential entrepreneurs. The FENERCA program included provisions for policy support (the most notable of which took place in Honduras) and sought to link entrepreneurial candidates with sources of financing even though the program itself did provide this financing.