Costa Rica Joins the GGGI

Costa Rica has signed on as an official member of the Global Ghost Gear Initiative (GGGI). Costa Rica joins 22 other national governments as a member of the GGGI and is the fourth Latin American country to join the initiative.

“We are thrilled to welcome Costa Rica as a member of the the GGGI. We look forward to working closely with the Costa Rican government to prevent and mitigate ghost gear in the region.”

- Ingrid Giskes, Senior Director of the GGGI and International Government Relations at Ocean Conservancy

Costa Rica has been supportive of the GGGI’s aim to include specific language around ALDFG in the International Legally Binding Instrument to end Plastic Pollution (ILBI, commonly referred to as the “Plastics Treaty”), and Ambassador Giovanna Valverde represented Costa Rica on a panel at a side event hosted by ProBlue and the World Bank on ALDFG at the third Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for the ILBI (INC-3) in Nairobi in November, 2023.

As a GGGI member, Costa Rica will work closely with the initiative and regional bodies on setting ambitious national and regional targets on recycling and End Producer Responsibility (EPR).

The other 22 members of the GGGI include Belgium, Canada, Dominican Republic, Germany, Iceland, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Palau, Panama, Samoa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, United Kingdom, United States, and Vanuatu.