by René Hernández Tapia | May 5, 2023 | Notes
About a year ago, environmental organizations watched with joy and hope the discussions held in the commissions of the Constitutional Convention, whose rules refer to empowered territories, nature as a subject of law, and glaciers with a high and detailed level of...
by René Hernández Tapia | Aug 25, 2020 | Notes
It is not unknown to anyone that in Chile there are controversies of a socio-environmental nature, cases such as the emblematic energy project “Alto Maipo” in the Metropolitan Region and the mining project “Pascua Lama” in Atacama, are...
by René Hernández Tapia | Jul 13, 2020 | Glacier Law
COMPARATIVE LEGISLATION ON PROTECTION OF NATURE AND GLACIERS Since 2006, there have been initiatives for the creation of a Glacier Protection Law, which have failed mainly due to the lack of support from the governments of the day, since our political system leaves to...
by René Hernández Tapia | May 11, 2020 | Glacier Law
Since July 4, 2018, the current glacier protection law propposal, (sixth attempt to create the law), has been processed in the National Congress. This project is under discussion by the Senate, specifically by the Mining and Energy Commission, because it could...
by René Hernández Tapia | Apr 14, 2020 | Glacier Law
I invite you to remember that glaciers in our country do not yet have a particular law to protect them, the last of the six attempts to create a protection standard, has been in the formation stage in our National Congress since July 4 2018, by the way, without...