Marcelo Lagos

This paper contributes to a critical re-reading of the notion of climate services. It does so by problematizing the discontinuity between young people’s commitment to climate change, and the lack of a common vision regarding climate policy among governments. In this essay, youth commitment is characterized in terms of participation in the Global Youth Climate Pact (GYCP, 2015–2022). Here, young people share projects from their own high schools and communities and participate in a citizen consultation. Most projects have achieved a good success score, increasing over the years, especially for those carried out in emerging and developing countries. Some of them were presented at the COPs. In contrast, a textual analysis of intended nationally determined contributions (INDC) illustrates divergent understandings of the Paris Agreement and exemplifies the poor results of governmental climate diplomacy. This study establishes the need to closely monitor early warning signs of climate change in conjunction with high schools and school communities. The initiatives of young people are building a civic and planetary awareness for climate change in contrast with governmental division and inertia. In this sense, climate services, directed to young people, could contribute to design a sustainable future. We approach the practices, attitudes, and commitments of young people from the angle of cooperation rather than a moral vision of responsibility. Particularly, we propose a dialogical link between the treatment of climate issues and its effects on the constitution of networks, notably as they relate to practices of action, that is, the way in which distinct groups of young people develop relationships with their environments, organize themselves, and act and transform reality.

Las condiciones geográficas chilenas hacen del país un escenarío donde permanentemente se dejan sentir las denominadas amenazas naturales, poniendo a prueba de manera casi constante la capacidad de la sociedad chilena para levantarse luego de cada evento y de mejorar sus formas de ocupación del espacio. El predominio de un esquema de funcionamiento basado casi exclusivamente en la rentabilidad y muy poco en los riesgos de localización, permite que una buena parte de nuestros asentamientos e instalaciones presenten niveles de vulnerabilidad importantes frente a ciertas amenazas naturales. El objetivo de este trabajo es hacer una revisión histórica del tema, buscando extraer las lecciones necesarias para establecer formas más sustentables de construcción del espacio geográfico chileno.

Se analiza el estado de los instrumentos de planificación territorial vigentes en la zona costera de la Región del Maule (Chile central) y se comparan con unidades espaciales a escala detallada de fragilidad ambiental y riesgo de tsunami. Se constata la precariedad de dichos instrumentos y la escasa incorporación de consideraciones ambientales en los mismos. En este marco se propone una zonificación que permite incorporar las variables ambientales estudiadas en los instrumentos de planificación del espacio costero.