A New Ecological Constitution for Chile

Conversation on the constitutional process and its effect on international environmental constitutionalism

Wednesday, June 29, 2022 **This event will be in Spanish.

10:00-11:30 AM CDMX, Quito and Bogotá

11:00-12:20 AM Santiago

Moderated by Cristina Lux, lawyer for Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA).

Chile is on the verge of voting on a new Constitution. In environmental terms, the text proposes to change the way we relate to our environment and nature. This new Constitution could be the first Ecological Constitution of the country. On July 5, the Constitutional Convention must propose the text of the new Constitution to the country, which must be voted on September 4 in a national plebiscite.

In this virtual seminar, we will talk with experts who have been involved in the process since its inception. We will also analyze this process from a comparative perspective, and based on the contemporary guidelines of international environmental law. CDER will participate in panel 2, along with FIMA and a representative of the Chilean Constitutional Convention. CDER will share the Ecuadorian experience in recognizing and implementing the rights of nature in its national constitution.

First Panel

New Constitution in Chile: A democratic process in complex times

Claudia Heiss, Political Scientist, Head of the Political Science Program at the Institute of Public Affairs of the University of Chile

Martin Corvera, Director of Projects and Innovation of the Smart Citizenship Foundation

Josefina Correa, Lawyer and political communicator

Second Panel

An Ecological Constitution for Chile

Carolina Palma, Political Scientist, Advocacy Coordinator of the NGO FIMA

Luis Jimenez Caceres, Lawyer, Constituent representative of the Aymara people

Hugo Echeverria, External Attorney, Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights

Please register for this event HERE.

Monday, August 16, 2021

12:00pm Eastern / 9:00am Pacific

Watch live! CDER’s Ecuador Attorney Hugo Echeverria will testify before the Commission on Biodiversity and Natural Resources of Ecuador’s National Assembly, on revisions to the national mining law to protect and enforce the #rightsofnature

Watch on Facebook Live:  https://www.facebook.com/ComisionBiodiversidad/