Cases challenging the government for authorising a specific project that leads to increased emissions or ineffective adaptation.

Cases mentioned

Asociación de Prestadores de Servicios Turísticos de Mejillones v Director Ejecutivo del Servicio de Evaluación Ambiental. Case docket number 6930 – 2021, ruled by the Court of Appeals of Antofagasta, dated August 31, 2021.
Compañía Minera Nevada v Servicio de Evaluación Ambiental. Case docket number R-143-2017 by the Second Environmental Court dated December 10, 2018.
Jara Alarcón and other v Servicio de Evaluación Ambiental. Case docket number 8.573-2019 ruled by the Supreme Court dated January 13, 2021; and case docket number R-141-2017 ruled by the Second Environmental Court dated February 8, 2019.
Compañía Minera Nevada v Servicio de Evaluación Ambiental. Case docket number R-143-2017 by the Second Environmental Court dated December 10, 2018.
Jara Alarcón and other v Servicio de Evaluación Ambiental. Case docket number 8.573-2019 ruled by the Supreme Court dated January 13, 2021; and case docket number R-141-2017 ruled by the Second Environmental Court dated February 8, 2019.
Jenny Patricia Montaño Olivares and other v Servicio de Evaluación Ambiental. Case docket number R-23-2019 ruled by the First Environmental Court dated November 25, 2019.
Corporación Privada para el Desarrollo de Aysén y otros con Servicio de Evaluación Ambiental. Case docket number R-42-2017 ruled by the Third Environmental Court dated January 4, 2018.
Gabriela Simonetti Grez y otros con Servicio de Evaluación Ambiental. Case docket number R-77-2018 ruled by the Third Environmental Court dated August 20, 2019.

For more country specific context and relevant national climate change law see: https://climate-laws.org/geographies/chile

This country report has been produced by Camilo Cornejo Martínez and Izaskun Linazasoro, C2LI Research Assistants, Hayley-Bo Dorrian-Bak, C2LI Senior Research Assistant and Gastón Medici-Colombo, C2LI Legal Analyst with the collaboration of Pilar Moraga, C2LI National Rapporteur. The summary is based on Pilar Moraga, “Climate Change Litigation in Chile: Between the Constitutional and the Environmental Jurisdiction Path” in F. Sindico and M. Moise Mbengue, Comparative Climate Change Litigation: Beyond the Usual Suspects, Springer, 2021.