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...
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 | 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 | 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 | 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...
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,...
Analysis | What are peatlands and how do they help us to reduce the...
By Jorge Hoyos-Santillán, postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2
Peatlands, as we can appreciate in image 1, are a type...
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 | 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...
Analysis | The 2019-2020 fire season: Lessons and challenges
René Garreaud, Deputy Director, Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2; Carlos Zamorano, adjunct investigator (CR)2; Mauro González, associate investigator (CR)2; Antonio Lara, principal...
