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It highlights a pattern of violence and state inaction in Costa Rica, noting that early warnings about armed non-indigenous intruders in the Térraba region were ignored by authorities. 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It highlights a pattern of violence, including the 2019 murder of Sergio Rojas Ortiz, and criticizes the Costa Rican government for failing to respond to alerts about armed intrusions or implement Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) precautionary measures for the Térraba and Salitre territories.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"foei-000761#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Jehry Rivera Rivera, a leader of the Naso Bröran community, was murdered on February 24, 2020, after defending indigenous autonomy against land usurpers and extractive projects, specifically the \"El Diquis\" hydroelectric dam project.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"foei-000761#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The Costa Rican government failed to provide a satisfactory response to alerts regarding armed non-indigenous intrusions in the Térraba indigenous lands and did not apply the precautionary measures established by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on April 30, 2015, for the protection of the Térraba and Salitre territories.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"foei-000761#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The murder of Jehry Rivera follows the March 18, 2019, murder of Sergio Rojas Ortiz, illustrating a broader trend of attacks and impunity facing indigenous peoples across Costa Rica.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"foei-000761#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["hydroelectricity","indigenous rights","land tenure"],"geography_discussed":["Latin America and Caribbean"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["human rights advocacy"]},{"id":"seforall-000289","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/seforall-000289","title":"FINANCING ACCESS TO COOLING SOLUTIONS","publisher":{"name":"Sustainable Energy for All","organization":"sustainable-energy-for-all"},"document_type":"briefing","language":"en","date_published":"2020-03-01","source_url":"https://www.seforall.org/system/files/2021-04/Financing-Cooling-SEforALL.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The document identifies significant barriers to financing sustainable cooling, including the diversity of needs across human comfort, agriculture, and health sectors, and a lack of global tracking for cooling-specific investments. It argues that while private capital is abundant, it is often too risk-averse for the innovative or low-income contexts where cooling is most needed. The brief highlights the role of the Kigali Cooling Efficiency Program (K-CEP) and suggests leveraging blended finance, national cooling action plans, and bulk procurement to scale solutions. It specifically emphasizes the need to coordinate funding for refrigerant replacement (via the Montreal Protocol) with energy efficiency improvements to maximize climate benefits.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"seforall-000289#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Financing for cooling is complicated by a wide diversity of needs, ranging from human comfort for over 2 billion people to cold chains for food and vaccines. For the poor, high upfront costs often lead to the purchase of the least energy-efficient and most carbon-intensive products.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"seforall-000289#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"There is a critical lack of formal tracking for access to cooling finance, which hinders the ability to establish baselines, understand trends, and identify gaps. Current data often relies on proxies from electricity access or general energy efficiency, which miss passive building design and specific cold chain investments.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"seforall-000289#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Private capital is dominated by risk-averse sources, while the public and philanthropic sources that can tolerate higher risks are more limited. In many developing countries, the investment climate is perceived as high risk due to political unrest, corruption, and weak contract enforcement.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"seforall-000289#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"A significant gap exists in the coordination between the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol (MLF), which funds refrigerant replacement, and other climate funds that support energy efficiency. This lack of alignment may result in lost opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the energy used to power cooling systems.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"seforall-000289#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Blended finance, which uses concessional public or philanthropic capital to attract private investment, has the potential to increase investment up to ten-fold. 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