A Climate Planning Guide for Chile
Climate Action Guide
A practical framework for climate action in Chile’s cities and regions
The Problem
In 2022, Chile passed the Climate Change Framework Law requiring every region and municipality to develop a plan to reach carbon neutrality by 2050. But many of the country’s municipalities lacked clear guidance, operational tools and technical capacity to translate this mandate into concrete and effective action.
The Problem
How can regional and municipal authorities develop effective climate action plans with limited resources and expertise?
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# of regional governments in Chile
345
# of municipalities in Chile
The Solution
SSG worked with Chile’s environment ministry and the Inter-American Development Bank to develop a step-by-step guide to support Chilean municipalities with measures to curb greenhouse gases immediately while developing a long-term action plan.
The guide presents more than 100 concrete actions that Chile’s regional and municipal governments can implement to advance toward carbon neutrality, such as incorporating green space protection zones into land-use planning.
Given Chile’s diverse climates—from the arid north to the lake and glacial regions of the south—SSG organized national and macro-regional workshops with mayors, governors, and technical teams to ensure the proposed actions reflect local realities and are practical at the municipal level.
The step-by-step guide supports local governments in identifying priority actions following a self-assessment of climate risks and greenhouse gas emissions. It outlines necessary transformations to address heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and flooding, while reducing emissions in six sectors: energy, buildings, transport, forests and nature, agri-food systems, and waste.
Each transformation includes enabling factors, potential barriers, examples from Chile, implementation strategies, relevant legal frameworks, and financing options identified in coordination with a national public–private climate finance working group.
The Outcome
The guide includes the following suggested actions at the regional and municipal level:
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actions to make urban infrastructure more resilient to heat waves
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actions to reduce water use in agriculture, mining and industry
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actions to improve land-use planning and reduce wildfire risk
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actions to make municipal infrastructure more resilient to floods and storms
The Outcome
Key Takeaways
Simpler is better, and on that basis, we designed the guide with maps and graphics that make it easy to use and apply in different contexts within the country and also in other countries
Carlos Urriola-Cuevas, Project Lead, SSG
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