Note d’information sur la Cible 8 du premier projet d’un cadre mondial de la biodiversité pour l’après-2020

Friends of the Earth International proposes a revised Target 8 for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. The briefing argues that the target should focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and deforestation, ensuring mitigation measures do not harm biodiversity, and prioritizing ecosystem-based approaches. It specifically calls for the removal of a quantitative carbon sequestration goal of 10 GtCO2-e per year, arguing that carbon accounting is an imprecise metric for biodiversity and risks promoting monoculture plantations or the commodification of nature.

• Target 8 should be structured around three primary elements: reducing climate-driven threats to biodiversity by cutting greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation, agriculture, and animal production; ensuring mitigation measures do not harm biodiversity; and prioritizing adaptation and mitigation that restore or increase biodiversity.
• Certain climate mitigation strategies are identified as specific dangers to biodiversity, including geoengineering, large-scale afforestation that replaces natural ecosystems with tree plantations, and Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) projects due to their high land requirements for biomass.
• The document recommends removing the specific goal of contributing "at least 10 GtCO2-e per year to global mitigation efforts" for five reasons: carbon accounting does not reflect biodiversity goals; carbon stocks do not correlate with species richness; avoided emissions and increased sequestration are not commensurable; the figure is scientifically imprecise; and it risks commodifying nature for carbon offset markets.
• To achieve the 10 GtCO2-e figure mentioned in some scientific documents, massive actions would be required by mid-century, including ending global ecosystem destruction (avoiding the deforestation of 270 million hectares), restoring 678 million hectares of ecosystems, and improving the management of approximately 2.5 billion hectares.

APA

Stabinsky, D. (2021). Note d’information sur la Cible 8 du premier projet d’un cadre mondial de la biodiversité pour l’après-2020. Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Cible-8-Note-dinformation.pdf

Chicago

Stabinsky, Doreen. Note d’information sur la Cible 8 du premier projet d’un cadre mondial de la biodiversité pour l’après-2020. Friends of the Earth International, 2021. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Cible-8-Note-dinformation.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stabinsky2021note, author = {Stabinsky, Doreen}, title = {{Note d’information sur la Cible 8 du premier projet d’un cadre mondial de la biodiversité pour l’après-2020}}, institution = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2021}, month = aug, url = {https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Cible-8-Note-dinformation.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }