¿Qué dice el Marco Mundial de la Diversidad Biológica sobre la conservación de los ecosistemas y las especies?

The document evaluates the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), highlighting positive steps toward preventing species extinction and protecting indigenous rights, while warning that the framework's reliance on total area targets and 'Nature-based Solutions' may implicitly permit biodiversity offsetting. It argues that the lack of explicit prohibitions on destructive activities like deep-sea mining and Arctic hydrocarbon extraction allows ecosystem destruction to continue, and encourages civil society to use the GBF's quality and restoration targets to hold governments accountable.

• Target 4 of the Global Biodiversity Framework calls for urgent management measures to stop species extinction, emphasizing the reduction of extinction risks, the maintenance of genetic diversity, and the use of 'in situ' conservation to preserve plants and animals in their natural habitats.
• The document warns that the framework's focus on the total proportion of land dedicated to biodiversity and the use of 'Nature-based Solutions' may facilitate biodiversity offsetting, a practice described as a failed attempt to compensate for nature's destruction that ignores structural causes like corporate power and indigenous rights.
• While Target 1 aims for near-zero loss of high-biodiversity areas by 2030 and Target 2 seeks effective restoration of 30% of degraded areas by 2030, there are concerns that governments may under-report degraded areas to avoid costs or use restoration in one area to justify destruction in another.
• The framework is criticized for lacking explicit prohibitions on high-impact activities such as deep-sea mining, Arctic hydrocarbon exploitation, mountaintop removal mining, fracking, and peatland drainage, which the document claims allows the 'massacre of ecosystems' to continue.
• The document suggests that civil society can use the GBF's emphasis on the quality, effectiveness, and equitable governance of conserved areas (Target 3) and the definition of degraded zones (Target 2) as tools to demand accountability from governments.

APA

Marien, N., Fandel, G., & Prak, C. (2024). ¿Qué dice el Marco Mundial de la Diversidad Biológica sobre la conservación de los ecosistemas y las especies? Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ES-GBF-Factsheet-conservacion.pdf

Chicago

Marien, Nele, Ghislaine Fandel, and Caroline Prak. ¿Qué dice el Marco Mundial de la Diversidad Biológica sobre la conservación de los ecosistemas y las especies? Friends of the Earth International, 2024. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ES-GBF-Factsheet-conservacion.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{marien2024dice, author = {Marien, Nele and Fandel, Ghislaine and Prak, Caroline}, title = {{¿Qué dice el Marco Mundial de la Diversidad Biológica sobre la conservación de los ecosistemas y las especies?}}, institution = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2024}, month = mar, url = {https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ES-GBF-Factsheet-conservacion.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }