Analysis | Towards a better forecast of heat waves in the Chilean south-central zone

Never and nowhere do heat waves (HW) go unnoticed. That is particularly true during the summer in the south-central zone of Chile, which extends...

Analysis | Extreme weather: One of the factors behind the February 2023 fires in...

By Martín Jacques Coper, (CR)2 principal investigator; René Garreaud, (CR)2 director; and Roberto Rondanelli, (CR)2 associate researcher. During the first week of February 2023, we...

Analysis | Reconstructing the past 5,000 years of climate history in the Southern Hemisphere

Antonio Lara, Ricardo Villalba, Rocío Urrutia-Jalabert, Álvaro González-Reyes, Juan Carlos Aravena, Brian Luckman, Emilio Cuq, Carmen Rodríguez, and Alexia Wolodarsky-Franke The use of natural indicators...

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...

Bulletin Nº2 Chile’s New Constitution and Climate Change | Climate Governance and the Elements:...

Authors: Marco Billi and Pilar Moraga | Editorial Leadership: Dominique Hervé and Pilar Moraga | Editorial Team: José Barraza. Climate change is produced by human activities that affect multiple...

Policy Brief | Climate Change Framework Bill and the Precautionary Principle: A Weak Formulation...

Verónica Delgado Schneider, Professor of Environmental Law, Universidad de Concepción. The discussion of the Climate Change Framework Bill in the Senate Committee on Environment and...

Analysis | Regulation of volatile organic compounds: a systemic look

By Rodrigo Seguel, full-time researcher at Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2. Thousands of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) coexist in the atmosphere due to...

Analysis | Could the carbon sink of the world’s forests be neutralized?

By Rocío Urrutia, adjunct investigator at the Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2 It has been reported that increased CO2 emissions, nitrogen deposition and...

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:...

Analysis | Browning in the forests of central Chile

Alejandro Miranda, Antonio Lara, Adison Altamirano, Carlos Di Bella, Mauro E. González & Jesús Camarero Something is happening in the sclerophyllous forests of central Chile:...

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