The National Forestry Corporation (CONAF), through the Climate Change and Environmental Services Unit (UCCSA), coordinates the National Climate Change and Vegetation Resources Strategy (ENCCRV; 2017-2025), which broadly integrates the requirements of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to reduce emissions from deforestation, forest degradation and increases in forest carbon stocks, through sustainable management and conservation of forests, known as REDD+.

Among the advances that Chile has achieved under the REDD+ approach are the forest carbon accounting represented in the Emissions Reduction Program, the development and recording of the Forest Reference Emission Level/Forestry Reference Level (NREF/NRF), the development of the First Technical Annex of REDD+ Results in the design and current implementation of the National Forest Monitoring System, among others.

On the other hand, in August 2016, Chile, through the Climate Change and Environmental Services Unit (UCCSA) of CONAF, submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) the Forest Reference Emission Level/Forestry Reference Level (NREF/NRF), for activities that occur in land use change and permanent forest. Thus, the reference period for emissions reduction accounting established in Chile under the REDD+ approach, considers for land use change activities that occurred between 2001 and 2013, in the regions of the Chile Emissions Reduction Program, Maule, Biobío (currently Biobío and Ñuble), La Araucanía, Los Ríos and Los Lagos.

The project led by Waldo Pérez and Leonardo Durán, together with the team of researchers and assistants from Centro Hémera, and academics from the School of Forestry Engineering, Idania Briceño, Paulina Vidal, Enrique Arce, Jesica Garrido, Natalia Tapia, Benjamín Castro and Fabián Llanos, will be in charge of preparing the maps of historical land use and land use change for the regions of Arica and Parinacota, Tarapacá, Antofagasta and Atacama 2001-2013, and 2013-2016 for the region of Aysén, whose results will be technically consistent with what Chile has done in NREF/NRF and in the First Technical Annex of REDD+ Results.