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The Ministry of Environment requested technical assistance from the CTCN for the design of a conceptually and practically robust monitoring strategy in the context of climate change. Chile is a country of markedly contrasting climatic and ecological environments, including coastal, desert, island, marine and mountainous settings. The Chilean population depends on the biodiversity created by these diverse ecosystems in many ways.
The CTCN team of experts is led by the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Centre (CATIE) in Costa Rica with the technical support of the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) with headquarters in Nairobi. For this technical assistance, the team gathered, processed, analysed and shared data on Chilean ecosystem integrity and biodiversity, including the potential impacts of future climate scenarios as well as an early warning system.
With this design developed, the Ministry of Environment will oversee the establishment of a national network and the implementation of necessary infrastructure and assignment of relevant personnel.