Ser complacientes con las empresas no va a salvar a la biodiversidad

This opinion piece by Nele Marien of Friends of the Earth International critiques the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Assessment on Businesses and Biodiversity. The author argues that the report erroneously assumes corporate ignorance is the primary barrier to biodiversity protection, whereas the actual driver is the profitability of destruction. Marien asserts that voluntary corporate actions and market-based instruments are ineffective and that only binding regulations and strict limits on corporate impacts can halt biodiversity loss.

• The IPBES Assessment on Businesses and Biodiversity identifies structural causes of biodiversity loss, including current economic systems, profit-oriented business models, short-term financial logic, harmful subsidies, corporate lobbying, power concentration, and inequality.
• The author contends that the IPBES report relies on a flawed assumption that companies lack awareness of their biodiversity impacts and dependencies, arguing instead that companies are aware but prioritize profits over protection because destruction remains profitable.
• Data from the IPBES report indicates that voluntary corporate action is largely ineffective, with less than 1% of companies that publish reports providing significant disclosure of their impact on biodiversity.
• The author criticizes the IPBES report for promoting market-based instruments—such as biodiversity credits, offset plans, payments for ecosystem services, green financial products, and certification—which are described as failed tools often used for greenwashing.
• The text argues that binding regulations are the only effective means of changing corporate behavior, contrasting this with the IPBES report's approach of treating regulation as just one option among voluntary partnerships and incentives.

APA

Marien, N. (2026). Ser complacientes con las empresas no va a salvar a la biodiversidad. Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/es/la-complacencia-con-las-empresas-no-salvara-la-biodiversidad/

Chicago

Marien, Nele. Ser complacientes con las empresas no va a salvar a la biodiversidad. Friends of the Earth International, 2026. https://www.foei.org/es/la-complacencia-con-las-empresas-no-salvara-la-biodiversidad/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{marien2026ser, author = {Marien, Nele}, title = {{Ser complacientes con las empresas no va a salvar a la biodiversidad}}, publisher = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2026}, month = feb, url = {https://www.foei.org/es/la-complacencia-con-las-empresas-no-salvara-la-biodiversidad/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }