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

The author argues that the IPBES Assessment on Businesses and Biodiversity relies on the flawed assumption that companies lack awareness of their environmental impacts. The text asserts that biodiversity destruction remains profitable, leading companies to lobby against regulations. It highlights the failure of voluntary corporate actions, noting that less than 1% of reporting companies significantly disclose biodiversity impacts. The author rejects market-based instruments like biodiversity credits and certifications as 'false solutions' and 'greenwashing,' calling instead for binding international norms and strict limits on corporate impacts to prevent ecological collapse.

• The IPBES Assessment on Businesses and Biodiversity identifies structural causes of biodiversity loss, including profit-oriented business models, short-term financial logic, harmful subsidies, corporate lobbying, power concentration, and inequality.
• The author contends that the IPBES report incorrectly assumes companies act poorly due to a lack of awareness, whereas the actual driver is that destruction remains profitable while protection is often not.
• Voluntary corporate actions are deemed ineffective, with the IPBES report indicating that fewer than 1% of companies that publish reports provide significant disclosure of their biodiversity impacts.
• Market-based instruments such as biodiversity credits, offset plans, payments for ecosystem services, green financial products, and certification are characterized as failed 'false solutions' and tools for greenwashing.
• The author argues that binding regulations are the only proven method for achieving environmental breakthroughs, contrasting them with the IPBES report's tendency to treat 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} }