COP16: alinear la biodiversidad con los derechos humanos y la acción climática

Global Witness calls for COP16 to transition the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework into concrete plans, specifically by protecting environmental defenders, regulating financial flows to end deforestation, and establishing strict global standards for responsible mining of energy transition minerals.

• Environmental and land defenders, particularly indigenous peoples, are critical to biodiversity conservation, managing over one-third of the world's protected lands across 90 countries and preserving approximately 80% of remaining global biodiversity, yet they face extreme violence and exclusion from decision-making.
• Global Witness argues that voluntary commitments by agricultural companies and financial institutions to end deforestation are failing, necessitating new mandatory regulations and national legislation to stop funding companies causing irreversible natural loss and human rights violations.
• The demand for minerals essential for renewable energy technologies—such as lithium, cobalt, and nickel—threatens biodiversity, with research suggesting up to one-third of the world's forests may already be impacted by mining, particularly in the Amazon, Congo Basin, and Southeast Asia.
• To ensure the energy transition does not occur at the expense of nature, Global Witness recommends the adoption of legally binding global standards for responsible mining, the requirement of free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) for affected communities, and the expansion of no-mining zones in biodiversity-rich areas.
• The document emphasizes the need for governments to align their updated National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) with their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement to integrate biodiversity goals with climate mitigation and adaptation.

APA

Global Witness (n.d.). COP16: alinear la biodiversidad con los derechos humanos y la acción climática. https://globalwitness.org/es/campaigns/forests/cop16-alinear-la-biodiversidad-con-los-derechos-humanos-y-la-acci%C3%B3n-clim%C3%A1tica/

Chicago

Global Witness. COP16: alinear la biodiversidad con los derechos humanos y la acción climática. n.d. https://globalwitness.org/es/campaigns/forests/cop16-alinear-la-biodiversidad-con-los-derechos-humanos-y-la-acci%C3%B3n-clim%C3%A1tica/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{globalwitnessndcop16, author = {{Global Witness}}, title = {{COP16: alinear la biodiversidad con los derechos humanos y la acción climática}}, publisher = {Global Witness}, url = {https://globalwitness.org/es/campaigns/forests/cop16-alinear-la-biodiversidad-con-los-derechos-humanos-y-la-acci%C3%B3n-clim%C3%A1tica/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }