Hans Willumsen at Seminar: “It is necessary to strengthen other regulatory and political instruments to decompress the SEIA and improve its efficiency and effectiveness in the evaluation of projects”.

On September 5, at the Law School of the Universidad Andrés Bello, was held the Seminar on Environmental Law: “A multidisciplinary look at sustainability in environmental evolution”. The event was attended by different academics from the university, together with Hans Willumsen Alende, Environmental Manager of Gisma, Alejandro Ruíz Fabres, current president of the Environmental Court of Santiago, and Felipe Sabando del Castillo, Minister of the Second Environmental Court of Santiago.

The seminar addressed various topics associated with the evolution of sustainable development and how the regulatory framework has been a transcendental element in this evolution. In this context, it was reviewed how environmental regulations have advanced and what are the future challenges, considering the predominance of the SEIA as an environmental management instrument, the need to strengthen the set of regulatory instruments, norms and policies to decompress the SEIA and the relevance of the institutionalization of new regulatory frameworks, such as the REP Law to promote recycling, and the materialization of others such as those associated with protected wild areas and biodiversity, which are still awaiting a formal institutional framework that looks at the problem integrally from a sustainability perspective.