In August 2021, the United Nations Intergovernmental Intergovernmental Group (IPCC) published a report that, after analyzing more than 14 thousand scientific articles, showed that this phenomenon is widespread, of rapid progress and that is intensifying.We are already living the consequences of a global warming of 1 ° C, and therefore, the report urges to limit it to 1.5 ° C, for which it is necessary to reach a zero broadcast in 2050.If measures are not taken and the rhythm of greenhouse gas emissions are maintained, towards 2100 heating can be between 3 ° C and 4 ° C.The consequences would be more than catastrophic.

Meanwhile, life continues to occur in a cycle that would already be naive to qualify as infinity.Biodiversity is the richness that sustains a lifetime on the planet, and from it we serve the inhabitants of the earth to prosper.But we are only men and women who, daily, we face decisions that, in the short and long term, at the cumulative or punctual level, impact this framework.From the micro -use public transport or car;Buying or not new clothes, recycling- even the most global, people, companies and governments must assume costs, but what does not change is the fact that, without an adequate quality of ecosystems, their productive capacity for human benefitIt looks and will be severely limited, affecting the generations that come.

With that objective in mind, the CMPC Biodiversity and Sustainable Development Chair was created, within the framework of Endowment UC."This chair is very important for several reasons.First, it highlights a really substantive topic in the University Development Plan for the coming years, and puts it from a research format, the in -depth training of our students and the contribution to the country.Second, we have this commitment of CMPC to collaborate at the Endowment of the University through the hiring of professors who develop this theme.And university endowment means a patrimonial background that looks to the future.We are working on diversity and sustainability, but also on the sustainability of the institution towards the long term, therefore, these two aspects I think they join perfectly well in this chair, ”said rector Ignacio Sánchez after the launch of this initiative, thelast December 7.On the same occasion, the president of CMPC, Luis Felipe Gazitúa, expressed his illusion for the chair and for what this collaboration implies: “I think we have a major brand challenge in the world, which is to combat climate change, naturally,And also compatible with productive development with the care of biodiversity, and I believe that the close relationship with the Academy, in this case with the Catholic University, is a very important and very productive path to establish ties that allow research, search and exchangeof experiences, and also challenges us to do things better ”.

Biodiversity, key aspect of development

Biodiversity, explains the professor of the Faculty of Agronomy and Forestry Engineering Cristián Bonacic, corresponds to all the life forms that inhabit the planet.Without them, ecosystems, and the multiple benefits they contribute to humanity, would not exist.Sustainable development, meanwhile, implies, in simple terms, that the use and enjoyArriagada: “The concept of development is, by definition, multidimensional.‘Development’ is not the same as ‘growth’;A country can grow economically speaking, but the latter is one more ingredient for development (...) add the adjective of ‘sustainability’, is that that can remain.Sustainable development is an equity issue between generations ".

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This intrinsic link between biodiversity, sustainability and well -being has progressively been recognized at the planetary level.A milestone in that sense was the 1992 Biological Diversity Convention, which is the first international treaty that covers all aspects of this issue, from the conservation and sustainable use of biological resources to access to biotechnology and security in security inActivities related to modified living organisms.Today, the United Nations 2030 Agenda includes among its sustainable development objectives the conservation of biodiversity for human well -being.Likewise, in 2012, the scientific-normative intergovernmental platform on ecological biodiversity and ecosystems, IPBES, which meets a role similar to that of the IPCC, in terms of providing evaluations on the state of knowledge of the planet's biodiversity, ecosystems, the ecosystems, the ecosystems,and of the benefits that they deliver to humanity, as well as tools and methods to protect and use natural resources sustainably."For the first time it is understood that it is not one or the other.Nature protection is a human responsibility, ”Cristián Bonacic Acuña."The benefits that nature provides are essential to face climate change and multiple challenges, such as environmental pollution and deterioration of the productive capacity of ecosystems to produce food," adds the veterinarian and phd doctor in universityof Oxford.

For his part, Piergiorgio Di Giminiani, a doctor in anthropology at University College London and associate professor at the UC Anthropology School, states that biodiversity is a concept that has extreme ascending at multiple levels for the human being: “In the beginning there is amaterial value;Without a minimum of biodiversity protection, many economic activities will not be sustainable.But more important is that biodiversity explains the variety of the world at all levels, social, cultural, economic.Without having a conception of the need to protect it, we are denying the biodiversity of human experience, of society, many elements ”.Hence, the look is today on how to promote the conditions that allow this wealth to unfold at a general level and not in, as was formerly, protect only species only.Di Giminiani points out, for example, that the wetlands were dried to give space to agriculture;Today, on the other hand, the consensus that must be safeguarding them has been reached because it is recognized that they create conditions for the existence of multiple life forms.

Knowledge to live

In the care of the environment, complete humanity is involved: each person, each company, each government, each organization, leaves a mark on the environment, and so that this impact is positive, key aspects emerge, such as knowledge, education and collaboration."The knowledge that is needed to make decisions on sustainable development is quite sophisticated and complex, because it has a high scientific-technical component, as in climate change, and a high ethical and moral component," says the professor of the Institute for DevelopmentSustainable Francisca Reyes.In that sense, the doctor in International Relations of Fletcher School of Law and Diplomy of the University of Tufts, explains that the Academy has several central and irreplaceable roles on this issue.One of them, naturally, is the generation of knowledge.Dr. Reyes explains that, at present, we not only know what is happening and why, but we have also been able to develop innovation and alternatives of change that offer the hope of achieving a better relationship with the environment.Without innovation that emanates from knowledge, for example, energy matrices would still be exclusively anchored in fossil fuels.In the same way, the study of nature -based solutions, that is, those natural systems or processes used to help achieve social objectives, have also been key, since these could contribute up to 30% of mitigationClimate necessary for 2050.But there are two other inseparable aspects of the university work to which it is necessary to pay attention: education and the exchange of knowledge with society.“Knowledge is the master key, but without a doubt education is very necessary, because these challenges are very anchored in micro decisions that are made at the individual level;They are not decisions that can only make a group of managers or scientists, they require changes in the behavior of human beings at the individual level.Education then seems to be a key element.Finally, I think that a great challenge is that the scientific community is able to get involved more actively and permanently with the different levels of society that require information to make decisions, and in a very central way there are those who make decisions at the levelExecutive and Legislative, of course, ”says the teacher.

Cristián Bonacic and Rodrigo Arriagada coincide, on the other hand, in which interdiscipline and collaboration are also fundamental when addressing this issue, aspects that just want.“Biodiversity conservation is not only a biological discipline, but it requires knowledge of social sciences, philosophy, ethics and economy.I am very optimistic that you can create a work group in biodiversity conservation with academics who are already in the university that can house and support the work of this new academic that is integrated under the logic of an endowment, ”says Bonacic.Arriagada, on the other hand, emphasizes that this model, together to conceive a new way of collaborating between the University and the company, will establish a place of collaboration within the University: “The Chair will also produce that space for academics from other facultiesWe can sit together with complex socio -environmental problems ".For his part, Pedro Bouchon, Vice Chancellor for Research of the Catholic University, emphasizes that this type of initiative contributes to promoting “conversations between the private world, the Academy, between the State, also of course in interaction with civil society, and ofThis way to understand what the development needs are;From these conversations, generate actions, possibilities, to understand us as a university how we have to be reacting to the demands that the population has ”.

The CMPC Biodiversity and Sustainable Development.Endowment, or patrimonial fund, will be used to enhance academic research and development on the campus, as well as to deliver more and better scholarships to students who require them.This initiative is added the Chair of Water Sustainability Antofagasta Minerals and the Entel Digital Transformation Chair, which seek to strengthen multidisciplinary research that is carried out at the Catholic University in subjects related to water management and climate change, and the digitalization process, respectively.