Summary
On 17 August 2023, Chile adopted a new Law 21.595 that modifies the country’s Penal Code on economic crimes to incorporate a new section (Section 13) on “Attacks against the environment (§ 13. Atentados contra el medio ambiente)”, which includes several elements of the legal definition of ecocide formulated by the Independent Expert Panel, convened by Stop Ecocide Foundation in 2021. The new regulation considers that a severe impact occurs when there are adverse changes to any of the components of the environment, taking into account the spatial range and the ecological or geographical characteristics of the affected area, its prolonged effects over time, if the damage is difficult to repair or irreversible, reaches a significant number of species, or species in danger of extinction, or puts the health of one or more people at serious risk, among others.
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Kauffman, Craig, Catherine Haas, Alex Putzer, Shrishtee Bajpai, Kelsey Leonard, Elizabeth Macpherson, Pamela Martin, Alessandro Pelizzon & Linda Sheehan. Eco Jurisprudence Monitor. V2. 2025. Distributed by the Eco Jurisprudence Monitor.https://ecojurisprudence.org/initiatives/chile-penal-code-2023-ecocide/.
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