Policy Brief | Water crisis in the Petorca basin: a combination of water management...
The water shortage in Petorca cannot be explained solely by the megadrought that has affected central Chile over the last decade.
Water management, extraction,...
Policy Brief | Water rights in Chile: An approach at odds with natural processes
In Chile, water is considered a national good for public use and usage rights are granted to private individuals, who as titleholders can use,...
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.
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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 | 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 | Change in Chile’s fire regime
The occurrence of extremely destructive, hard-to-control fires – called megafires - has increased in south-central Chile since 2010, causing serious social, economic, and environmental...
Policy brief | Climate Change and Coronavirus Recovery Plans
Ryan Mitchell, MA Student at Clark University, International Development and Social Change. Internship at Climate Change Law Observatory - (CR)2.
The coronavirus pandemic has brought...
Policy brief | Climate change in Chile: the need to diversify nature-based solutions
The national strategy to address climate change relies on land use, land-use change, and forestry to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.
Scientific evidence has...
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...
Policy brief | Legal Reforms for Achieving Carbon Neutrality by 2050
Pilar Moraga, Principal Researcher of the Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2, Dominique Hervé, Research Associate of the Center for Climate and Resilience...