Análisis de las decisiones de la Convención en Diversidad Biológica: una herramienta para su uso a nivel nacional

This internal report by Friends of the Earth International (ATI) analyzes decisions made during 14 Conferences of the Parties (COPs) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). It categorizes 233 decisions into five programmatic approaches—Community Forest Management (MCB), Biodiversity, Rights, Financialization (False Solutions), and Governance—to provide a tool for indigenous peoples and social movements to hold governments accountable for their international commitments.

• The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has three primary objectives: the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of its components, and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from genetic resources.
• The Ecosystem Approach is a management strategy for land, water, and living resources that promotes equitable conservation and sustainable use, structured around 12 principles. These include the requirement that resource management objectives be decided by society and that management be decentralized to the lowest appropriate level.
• The Addis Ababa Principles and Guidelines for the Sustainable Use of Biological Diversity establish 14 principles, emphasizing that local users must be sufficiently empowered and supported by rights to take responsibility for resource use.
• The CBD's Expanded Programme of Work on Forest Biological Diversity recognizes the vital role of women in indigenous and local communities regarding the sustainable use and conservation of forest biological diversity, particularly non-wood resources.
• The Akwé Kon Voluntary Guidelines provide a framework for conducting cultural, environmental, and social impact assessments for development projects in sacred sites or lands traditionally used by indigenous and local communities, requiring their free, prior, and informed consent.
• The Tkarihwaié Ethical Code of Conduct serves as a guide for the research, use, and management of information related to traditional knowledge, innovations, and practices of indigenous and local communities.
• The CBD has adopted a short-term Action Plan for Ecosystem Restoration, defining ecological restoration as a management process to recover degraded, damaged, or destroyed ecosystems to sustain resilience and conserve biodiversity.
• ATI identifies 'false solutions' as market-based approaches and the 'financialization of nature,' which frame environmental protection in exclusively economic-financial terms. This includes the use of economic valuation of ecosystem services to create payment mechanisms that may ignore perverse incentives driving biodiversity loss.
• The CBD has sought to integrate biological diversity into productive sectors, including energy, mining, infrastructure, and manufacturing, by encouraging companies to report their dependencies and impacts on biodiversity.

APA

Spataro, E., & Rojas, I. (2020). Análisis de las decisiones de la Convención en Diversidad Biológica: una herramienta para su uso a nivel nacional. Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Analisis-de-las-decisiones-de-la-Convencion-en-Diversidad-Biologica_Amigos-de-la-tierra-internacional_espanol.pdf

Chicago

Spataro, Emilio, and Isaac Rojas. Análisis de las decisiones de la Convención en Diversidad Biológica: una herramienta para su uso a nivel nacional. Friends of the Earth International, 2020. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Analisis-de-las-decisiones-de-la-Convencion-en-Diversidad-Biologica_Amigos-de-la-tierra-internacional_espanol.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{spataro2020anlisis, author = {Spataro, Emilio and Rojas, Isaac}, title = {{Análisis de las decisiones de la Convención en Diversidad Biológica: una herramienta para su uso a nivel nacional}}, institution = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2020}, month = dec, url = {https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Analisis-de-las-decisiones-de-la-Convencion-en-Diversidad-Biologica_Amigos-de-la-tierra-internacional_espanol.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }