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CONSERVATION EXCHANGES 2022/23.
This is a summary report on the exchanges that took place during our 2022/23 season.
REMARKS OF MINISTER OF THE ENVIRONMENT MAISA ROJAS TO THE CCCX CONSERVATON MEET UP IN BERKELEY
May 2022
SUMMARY OF REPORT ON PRESENTATIONS AT THE CCCX CONSERVATION MEET UP IN BERKELEY
May 2022
RELATED ARTICLES
PROTECCIÓN DE LA NATURALEZA Y UNA NUEVA CONSTITUCIÓN PARA CHILE: LECCIONES DE LA DOCTRINA DEL PUBLIC TRUST.
January 2022
The Public Trust Doctrine is an ancient legal concept that can be traced from Roman law and the British Magna Carta to the present. Initially, in the modern era it applied only to navigable rivers and shorelines. Over the past 60 years courts, legislatures and constitutions throughout the world have expanded the doctrine to extend to a wide range of natural resources, including ecosystem services.
The purpose of this report is to examine the concept of the Public Trust Doctrine and consider whether its principles might be incorporated into the new Chilean Constitution in order to provide greater protection of the natural environment. With the leadership of Dominique Hervé and Verónica Delgado the report became later a proposal for a constitutional clause called Custodia Pública de la Naturaleza. This proposal received the support of 12 members of the Constitutional Assembly and is today in discussion to be adopted for a future constitution of Chile.
In this updated version we added a fifth chapter that includes the constitutional clause presented.
PROTECCIÓN DE LA NATURALEZA Y UNA NUEVA CONSTITUCIÓN PARA CHILE: LECCIONES DE LA DOCTRINA DEL PUBLIC TRUST.
English version May 2021
This is an English language version of the Public Trust report. It does not contain the fifth chapter that contains the Custodia Pública de la Naturaleza clause that the Chilean authors ultimately recommended to the Constitutional Assembly.
FINAL REPORT CCCX 2019 CONFERENCE.
Marshall, California. October 20-23, 2019
The 2019 conference convened just as the civil unrest that ultimately led to the Constitutional Assembly broke out. Topics discussed included the climate crisis, coastal and marine issues, fisheries, biodiversity, large landscape conservation strategies, national parks, standards and best practices for private land conservation, tax policy and conservation philanthropy, and communications. The conference was framed with respect to COP 25 that was to have been in Santiago, but ultimately moved to Spain because of the political situation in Chile.
FINAL REPORT CCCX 2018 CONFERENCE.
Santa Cruz. California. October 21-25th, 2018
Topics discussed included coastal and marine issues, tax policy and conservation philanthropy, land trusts and private protected areas.
FINAL REPORT CCCX 2017 CONFERENCE.
Sonoma County. California. September 25-28, 2017
This first CCCX conference began with a tribute to the late Elisa Corcuera Vleigenthart who inspired the creation of the CCCX. Topics discussed included the California Coastal Act, climate change, the International Land Conservation Network, the derecho real de conservación, tax policy and conservation philanthropy.
Constitutionalizing the Public Trust Doctrine in Chile
By Michael C. Blumm and Matthew Herbert
This article will be included here following its publication in the Environmental Law Journal later in 2022. It is currently posted on SSRN at:https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4025564
Nuevos Parques Nacionales en Chile
LA TERCERA Newspaper / February 22nd 2018
by Ricardo Rodriguez (Chile California Council) & Tomas McKay (Chile California Conservation Exchange)
An Open Field: Emerging Opportunities for a Global Private Land Conservation Movement
by Laura Johnson
This paper explores the history of the land trust movement in the US, looks at specific examples of the growing private land conservation movement around the globe, and proposes a model that includes a framework of legal, financial and organizational elements that are needed to grow and sustain private land conservation activity regardless of geography.
Estándares para la Conservación Privada en Chile. 2020
Prepared by Asi Conserva Chile, Fundación Tierra Austral, CORFO and the Ministry of Environment.