Ce que dit le Cadre mondial pour la biodiversité au sujet de la conservation des écosystèmes et des espèces

The document analyzes the Global Biodiversity Framework, noting that while Target 4 promotes urgent measures to prevent species extinction and Target 3 emphasizes effective protected area management, the framework is flawed by an implicit reliance on biodiversity offsetting. The author argues that offsetting is a harmful practice that fails to address root causes of biodiversity loss and may justify the destruction of nature. Key gaps include the lack of explicit bans on high-impact activities like deep-sea mining and Arctic drilling, and a failure to adequately link conservation to industrial agriculture and fossil fuel extraction.

• Target 4 of the framework mandates urgent management actions to prevent species extinction, emphasizing the reduction of extinction risks, maintenance of genetic diversity, and the use of 'in situ' conservation to keep species healthy in their natural habitats.
• The document criticizes the framework for implicitly permitting biodiversity offsetting, which it describes as a harmful and often unsuccessful practice that treats ecosystems as interchangeable and ignores the rights of Indigenous peoples.
• While Target 1 aims for near-zero loss of high-biodiversity areas by 2030 and Target 2 requires the restoration of 30% of degraded areas, there are concerns that a lack of a clear definition for 'degraded' and a focus on global land shares could facilitate further offsetting and ecosystem loss.
• The framework is noted for significant gaps, specifically the absence of total bans on destructive activities such as deep-sea mining, Arctic drilling, hydraulic fracturing, and mountaintop removal mining.
• The document argues that the framework fails to adequately recognize the link between conservation and primary drivers of biodiversity loss, such as industrial agriculture, mining, and fossil fuel extraction.

APA

Marien, N. (2024). Ce que dit le Cadre mondial pour la biodiversité au sujet de la conservation des écosystèmes et des espèces. Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/FR-GBF-Factsheet-conservation.pdf

Chicago

Marien, Nele. Ce que dit le Cadre mondial pour la biodiversité au sujet de la conservation des écosystèmes et des espèces. Friends of the Earth International, 2024. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/FR-GBF-Factsheet-conservation.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{marien2024que, author = {Marien, Nele}, title = {{Ce que dit le Cadre mondial pour la biodiversité au sujet de la conservation des écosystèmes et des espèces}}, institution = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2024}, month = mar, url = {https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/FR-GBF-Factsheet-conservation.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }