Posted on October 19, 2020.

The Largo Climate Strategy Term (ECLP) is the commitment that our country acquired for the next 30 years (2050), a period in which it is expected to face the challenge of change climate with goals such as: moving towards a development low in emissions of greenhouse gases until reaching and maintaining emission neutrality thereof; reduce vulnerability and increase resilience to adverse effects of climate change; and, fulfill the commitments international standards assumed by the State of Chile on the matter

This ECLP is being implemented in Chile to comply with the provisions of article 4.19 of the Paris Agreement, which encourages all parties to formulate and communicate their long-term strategies for low-emission development of greenhouse gases greenhouse effect. In addition, the Environmental Assessment of Chile developed by The OECD in 2016 recommends identifying the long-term trajectory consistent with the goal of net zero emissions in the second half of the decade 2050 and publicize the commitment through legislative or other measures nature. That is why in the Draft Framework Law on Climate Change the country undertakes to develop, implement and monitor its ECLP, being the Ministry of the Environment who acts as coordinator of said process.

As progress in this process, recently (October 2020) it was presented to the Advisory Committee for Climate Action, a cross-sectional and high-level group that will contribute in the preparation of this ECLP and that, in addition, will advise the Ministry of the Environment in the processes of elaboration of instruments for the management of climate change and in the period of Presidency of COP25.

For the process of making ECLP, Chile has the valuable technical and financial support of various international organizations such as the World Bank, Inter-American Bank of Development, ECLAC, Euroclima +, Global Environment Facility, GIZ, NDC Partnership, UN Environment, UNDP, FAO, among others.

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