Juan Esteban Buttazzoni

Legal and Sustainability Advisor

FS Abogados/Rompientes

jebuttazzoni@fsabogados.cl

Co-founder and director of Fundación Rompientes and Partner at FS Abogados, a boutique law firm strongly committed with sustainability and innovation (B-Corp certification pending). Attorney from Universidad Católica of Chile with an MS in Environmental Management and Sustainability from Monash University, Australia whose work has focused on environmental management and compliance, water management counselling and coastal conservation projects. Juan has been working over the past 6 years in the private sector, 2 years in the public sector in institutions such as General Directorate of Water (Chile). He also has been involved with urban planning and sustainability, entrepreneurship, community relations and is an avid surfer. Additional, Juan is the Project leader of Fundacion Rompientes in the Marine and Coastal Sanctuary “Piedra del Viento” in the Central Coast of Chile in alliance with local stakeholders and the Marine Conservation Institute, which for the first time in Chile recognizes Surf breaks and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) of Coastal inhabitants as objectives of protection. Additionally, he advised NGO's in the design and implementation of Private Land Conservation through Conservation Easements and the creations of Natural Sanctuaries.

Management Plan of Piedra del Viento Marine Sanctuary: Market Based solutions based on triple impact approach

Chile is a world leader in enacting MPA’s, but it has not been able to generate effective management for these areas, which can be placed as internationally recognized “paper park” (Petit et al, 2018). Based on the principles of a circular economy the project aims to develop a management plan for the Piedra del Viento Marine Sanctuary using a triple bottom approach methodology while fostering market based solutions as an effective mechanism once is adapted to social and cultural context. The project activities required first to share a common conservation vision among local stakeholders, using open standards for conservation methodologies, I plan to generate a bottom up approach in which the local community recognize that a sustainable market based solution requires its participation and empowerment. Secondly, I look forward to develop a business model case in order to connect local products (ex. Seaweed) directly with international consumers increasing product prices through traceability and evidencing sustainable practices. Third the model requires to reach a common agreement in which producers agreed to reinvest a fee in the MPA’s management and monitoring system.

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