Chile´s National Climate Change Action Plan APEC Seminar: “Smallholders’ Response to New Climate Change Scenarios” Foro de Cooperación Económica Asia Pacífico APEC 29 y 30 de noviembre de 2017 Fernando Farías, Head Climate Change Division, Ministry of Environment of Chile

Contents • Climate Change Policy Tools in Chile National Climate Change Adaptation Plan Sectoral Climate Change Adaptation Plans Chilean NDC for the Paris Agreement National Climate Change Action Plan 2017-2022 Chile´s Carbon Tax

• Climate Change Institutions in Chile Ministry of Environment Chilean Agency for Sustainability and Climate Change ETICC, CORECCs Green Climate Fund Technical Secretary Presidential Advisory Committee

1. National Climate Change Adaptation Plan Approved in December 2014 by the Council of Ministries for Sustainability. The Plan establishes the lines of action for the adaptation in Chile and the operational structure for the elaboration and the implementation of the 9 sectorial adaptation plans: - Agriculture and Forestry (2013) - Biodiversity (2014) - Fisheries and Aquaculture (2015) - Health (2016) - Infraestructure (2017) - Cities (2018) Energy (2018) - Water Resources (2018 and beyond) - Tourism (2018 and beyond)

http://portal.mma.gob.cl

2. Sectorial Adaptation Plans to Climate Change October 2013

December 2016

July 2014

November 2017

December 2015

Other Sectorial Public Policies: Forestry, Energy, Disaster Risk

3. Chilean NDC for the Paris Agreement National Determined Contribution (NDC): 5 Basic Pillars in 3 Axes: Resilience to Climate Change: (1) Adaptation (2) Capacity Building and strengthening

GHG Emission Control: (3) Mitigation

Cross-Cutting Support for climate action: (4) Technology Development and Transfer (5) Financing

Chilean mitigation contribution comprehends two components:

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Goal: Intensity of Emissions

Goal Forestry sector

•To reduce CO2 emissions per GDP unit by 30% below the 2007 levels by 2030. •Conditional: 35-45%

•Sustainable management and recovery 100.000 ha of Forest Land(>Native) •Reforest 100 .000 ha (>Native)

4. National Climate Change Action Plan 2017-2022 (PANCC) This Plan is the structural public policy instrument for climate change, comprising actions to be implemented by several Ministries and Government Institutions for the next 5 years.

On July the 12th of 2017, the President Michelle Bachelet alongside with 7 State Ministers presented the New PANCC to the Country.

ADAPTATION 3 Specific goals

MITIGATION 5 Specific goals

4 Lines of action

12 Lines of action

17 Measures

31 Measures (1 Meassure= 29 Measures Energy Sector)

3 Specific goals 5 Specific goals

8 Lines of action

29 Measures

MEANS OF IMPLEMENTATION

6 Lines of action

19 Measures

CLIMATE CHANGE MANAGEMENT AT LOCAL AND REGIONAL LEVEL

5. Chile Carbon Tax • In September 2014, Chile passed a General Tax Reform Bill (Ley 20.780) with 3 green taxes. • Three new taxes were introduced: – tax on CO2 emissions from stationary sources with boilers and turbines (sum over 50MW): US$5/Ton CO2 – tax on local contaminants also on stationary sources with boilers and turbines (PM, SO2 and NOX). – tax on the first sale of new cars considering the expected NOx emissions over their lifetime.

II. Insitutional Framework: A new institutional Climate Change framework in Chile to deal with our new responsibilities under the Paris Agreement - April 2017: President Bachelet signs the enactment of the Law approving the Climate Paris Agreement in Chile

- January 2017: starts operation of the Agency on Sustainability and Climate Change to implement climate change projects mostly with the private sector

Interministerial Technical Team on Climate Change (ETICC) composed by representatives of the Ministries and Services of the Central Government, with competences in the topic of climate change.

A new institutional Climate Change framework in Chile to deal with our new responsibilities under the Paris Agreement - March 2016: The Environmental Council of Ministers nominates Vice-Minister of the Ministry of Finance as Chile´s NDA to the Green Climate Fund and creates a Technical Secretariat led by the Ministry of Environment to support the prioritization of projects to be presented by the country to the GCF: so far 2 projects of Chile have received approval to be funded by the GCF - Since December 2016: Ongoing creation of Sub-national Climate Change Councils led by sub-national authorities: CORECC

Climate Action at a Subnational Level: CORECC • A CORECC represents the leadership of sub-national authorities in addressing the challenges of climate change. Convoked by the “Intendente Regional”

Climate Action at a Subnational Level: CORECC CORECC Tarapacá, 11.2016

CORECC Atacama, 8.2017 CORECC Coquimbo, 6.2017 CORECC Valparaíso, 12.2016 CORECC Metropolitana, 6.2017 CORECC O’Higgins, 10.2017 CORECC Maule, 10.2017 CORECC Araucanía, 7.2017 CORECC Los Ríos, 8.2017 CORECC Los Lagos, 10.2017 CORECC Aysén, 3.2017

CORECC Magallanes, 11.2017

Already implemented in 12 out of the 15 Administrative Regions of the Country Main function is to promote and facilitate the elaboration and implementation, at the subnational and local level, of policies, plans and actions on climate change, according to regional and local needs and opportunities.

Climate Change Institutionality in Chile Other recent improvements: Presidential Advisory Committee on climate change On November 22nd 2017, the President Michelle Bachelet established the Permanent Presidential Advisory Committee on Climate Change Composed by members of the public sector, private sector, civil society, academia

DIGITAL PLATFORM: BASE DIGITAL DEL CLIMA Prepared by the Department of Information Technologies and the Department of Adaptation to Climate Change and Capacity Building of MMA http://basedigitaldelclima.mma.gob.cl

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