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 CR2 | Drought Indices for Monitoring Water Deficits in Chilean River Flows

Oscar M. Baez-Villanueva, Hydro-Climate Extremes Lab (H-CEL), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini, associate researcher CR2; Diego G. Miralles, Hydro-Climate Extremes Lab (H-CEL), Ghent...

Policy brief CR2 | The Challenges of Air Pollution in the Quintero-Puchuncaví Bay

By Rodrigo Seguel, Researcher at the Center for Climate Science and Resilience (CR2) Since 1955, various productive activities have been concentrated in the Quintero-Puchuncaví...

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 | Comments on the Report of Legal Reforms for Achieving Carbon Neutrality...

Setting a National Target for CO2 and Short-lived Pollutants by Declaring a Saturated Zone By Marcelo Mena, Former Minister of the Environment and Director of...

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 | Energy Poverty and the Climate Change Framework Law

Montserrat Castro, Nucleus of Transdisciplinary Systemic Studies (Nest), Universidad de Chile; Catalina Amigo, PhD student at the Center for Climate and Resilience Science (CR)2,...

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 | 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 CR2 | Effects of Native Forest Cover Loss from Forestry Activity and...

By Alejandro Miranda, Department of Forest Sciences, University of La Frontera and CR2 Associate Researcher; Jorge Hoyos-Santillan, Associate Researcher Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and...

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