La proposition d’intégration de la biodiversité est dangereuse et n’arrêtera pas son effondrement

Friends of the Earth International criticizes the CBD's biodiversity integration proposal, claiming it promotes 'greenwashing' through voluntary corporate actions and biodiversity offsets rather than mandatory government regulations. The statement argues that the proposal fails to address the drivers of biodiversity loss—unsustainable production and overconsumption—and risks marginalizing indigenous peoples and civil society while increasing corporate power.

• The CBD's proposal to 'integrate biodiversity into all sectors' is criticized for being marginalized in a separate document and discussed in non-democratic spaces, rather than being central to the Global Biodiversity Framework.
• The document argues that government-led biodiversity integration is flawed because it relies on 'ecosystem accounting' and 'natural capital', which ignore non-quantifiable spiritual and cultural values and may justify destruction if investment returns exceed the assigned biodiversity value.
• The proposal's approach to the corporate and financial sectors is deemed ineffective because it emphasizes voluntary 'transition' and reporting over mandatory government regulations on resource extraction, pollution, and the expansion of projects into natural areas.
• The use of 'nature-based solutions' and biodiversity offsets is characterized as 'greenwashing' that allows continued destruction of natural areas as long as it is compensated elsewhere, which the document claims has been proven to increase biodiversity loss.
• The document asserts that the proposal unfairly shifts the responsibility for sustainable living onto individual consumers rather than addressing the systemic structures of unsustainable production through government action.

APA

FOEIAdmin (2021). La proposition d’intégration de la biodiversité est dangereuse et n’arrêtera pas son effondrement. Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/fr/proposition-integration-biodiversite-dangereuse-effondrement/

Chicago

FOEIAdmin. La proposition d’intégration de la biodiversité est dangereuse et n’arrêtera pas son effondrement. Friends of the Earth International, 2021. https://www.foei.org/fr/proposition-integration-biodiversite-dangereuse-effondrement/.

Wikipedia

{{cite press release |last1=FOEIAdmin |title=La proposition d’intégration de la biodiversité est dangereuse et n’arrêtera pas son effondrement |publisher=Friends of the Earth International |date=18 May 2021 |url=https://www.foei.org/fr/proposition-integration-biodiversite-dangereuse-effondrement/ |access-date=17 August 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@misc{foeiadmin2021proposition, author = {FOEIAdmin}, title = {{La proposition d’intégration de la biodiversité est dangereuse et n’arrêtera pas son effondrement}}, publisher = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2021}, month = may, url = {https://www.foei.org/fr/proposition-integration-biodiversite-dangereuse-effondrement/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }