Policy Brief: Citizen Participation in the Climate Change Framework Bill

Montserrat Madariaga Gómez de Cuenca, lawyer and researcher at the Center for the Law of the Sea at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Citizen participation:...

Policy brief | Increase of river and stream flow through native forest restoration in...

After 14 years of research, it was shown that recovering areas with native vegetation generates an increase in flows immediately and its maintenance...

Policy Brief | Comments on the Climate Change Framework Bill (1st part)

Introduction While the Paris Agreement sets the goal of keeping a global temperature rise below 2 °C (and attempting to limit the increase even further...

Policy brief | What Is Chile’s Long-Term Climate Strategy?

Pilar Moraga, Deputy Director of the Center of Environmental Law of the School of Law of Universidad de Chile and Principal Researcher of the...

Policy brief | Identifying the urban-rural interface in Chile: conditions that determine the highest...

Delimiting the rural-urban interface areas of Chile and defining those that have a higher risk of fires will allow efficient targeting of management...

Policy brief | Cities’ Time to Shine in Climate Change Governance

Xira Ruiz Campillo, International Relations and Global History Department, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Cities have become an indispensable actor in the fight against climate change...

Policy brief | Why community drinking water organizations are important in integrated watershed management...

These groups play a relevant role at the rural level, since their actions are based on the principles of a social and solidarity...

Policy brief | Environmental injustice and sacrifice zones: The Puchuncaví case

The socio-environmental history of Puchuncaví, a renowned sacrifice zone located in the Valparaíso Region, Chile, has been reconstructed for the last 136 years. ...

Policy brief | Water availability in the Cauquenes river basin facing climate change and...

Lower rainfall and an increase in temperature would generate a 32.1% decrease in the flow of the Cauquenes river basin for the period...

Policy brief | An Approach to Updating the Chilean NDC from the Perspective of...

Isaías Urzúa, lawyer. Research Assistant at the Center for Environmental Law of Universidad de Chile. At the beginning of 2020, the Chilean government presented an...

Recent posts