Abstract

This report was compiled within the ClimateAdaptationSantiago Project (CAS). The CAS project is a joint effort of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ (responsible for the coordination), the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology – KIT, the Universidad de Chile – UCH, the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile – PUC, and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean – ECLAC/CEPAL and acts at the science-policy interface. Its main objective is the development of adaptation strategies and measures to climate change in the Metropolitan Region of Santiago de Chile (MRS). The expected climate change impacts, on the one hand, and the extreme concentration of economic power and of decisive political and functional systems in the capital of Chile, on the other hand, require endeavours to plan and implement adaptive actions.