Diversifying Chile’s climate action away from industrial plantations
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2021
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As president of the Climate Change Conference of the Parties, Chile has advocated for developing ambitious commitments to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions to achieve carbon-neutrality by 2050. However, Chile’s motivations and ambitious push to reach carbon-neutrality are complicated by a backdrop of severe drought, climate change impacts (i.e., wildfires, tree mortality), and the use of industrial plantations as a mitigation
strategy. This has become more evident as widespread and severe wildfires have impacted large areas of industrial plantations, transforming the land-use, land-use change, and forestry sector from a carbon sink to a net carbon source. Consequently, Chile must diversify its climate actions to achieve carbon-neutrality. Nature-based
solutions, including wetlands-peatlands and oceans, represent alternative climate actions that can be implemented to tackle greenhouse gas emissions at a national level. Diversification, however, must guarantee Chile’s long-term carbon sequestration capacity without compromising the ecological functionality of biodiverse treeless habitats and native forest ecosystems
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Jorge Hoyos-Santillan, Alejandro Miranda, Antonio Lara, Armando Sepulveda-Jauregui, Carlos Zamorano-Elgueta, Susana Gómez-González, Felipe Vásquez-Lavín, Rene D. Garreaud, Maisa Rojas, Diversifying Chile’s climate action away from industrial plantations, Environmental Science & Policy, Volume 124, 2021, Pages 85-89, ISSN 1462-9011, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2021.06.013.
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Climate action, Wildfires, Nature-based solutions, Native forest, Carbon neutrality, Net-zero