ws_hr_in_cbd_post2020_gbf_report_fin_200223-6387336cfb3fa20a.pdf

This report documents a thematic workshop held in February 2020 in Chiang Mai, Thailand, focused on integrating a human rights-based approach into the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. Co-convened by several organizations including Natural Justice and UN Environment, the workshop aimed to provide text proposals and strategic options to ensure that biodiversity conservation, sustainable use, and benefit-sharing are aligned with international human rights standards.

• The workshop participants argued that human rights and a healthy planet are mutually dependent, asserting that the respect, protection, and fulfillment of human rights are necessary for a safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment.
• The report critiques the zero-draft of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework for failing to deliver 'transformative change' and suggests that the framework must address the 'curve of inequality' to effectively halt biodiversity loss.
• Participants proposed several specific additions to the framework's targets, including the global recognition of the right to a clean, healthy, safe, and sustainable environment, and the securing of indigenous peoples' and local communities' rights to their lands, territories, and resources.
• The report highlights the need to protect environmental defenders, particularly women and indigenous peoples, from threats, harassment, intimidation, and violence to ensure a safe operating environment.
• The workshop identified a need to reform economic growth models that are unsustainable and inequitable, specifically citing mining, industrial agriculture, and large infrastructure projects as drivers that harm both biodiversity and human rights.
• Regarding protected areas, the report suggests defining or deleting the term 'strict protection' to prevent repeated human rights violations, especially in areas with existing human habitation.
• The report emphasizes that the framework should recognize the co-evolution of biological and cultural diversity and move away from a utilitarian approach that views nature solely in terms of 'services' and 'benefits'.
• The workshop participants recommended that the framework's monitoring and reporting mechanisms be strengthened to include non-State reporting, such as shadow reports from civil society and the Human Rights Council Special Procedures.
• Findings from visits to the Karen communities of Hin Lad Nai and Doi Chang Pa Pae demonstrated that traditional knowledge and rotational farming systems can effectively maintain biodiversity and livelihoods over several hundred years.
• The report notes that in Thailand, collective territorial rights are not recognized under national law, leaving the lands of the visited Karen communities gazetted as forest or wildlife protection areas.

APA

Natural Justice (n.d.). ws_hr_in_cbd_post2020_gbf_report_fin_200223-6387336cfb3fa20a.pdf. https://naturaljustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/WS_HR_in_CBD_post2020_GBF_Report_FIN_200223.pdf

Chicago

Natural Justice. ws_hr_in_cbd_post2020_gbf_report_fin_200223-6387336cfb3fa20a.pdf. n.d. https://naturaljustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/WS_HR_in_CBD_post2020_GBF_Report_FIN_200223.pdf.

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@techreport{naturaljusticendwshrincbdpost2020gbfreportfin2002236387336cfb3fa20apdf, author = {{Natural Justice}}, title = {{ws\_hr\_in\_cbd\_post2020\_gbf\_report\_fin\_200223-6387336cfb3fa20a.pdf}}, institution = {Natural Justice}, url = {https://naturaljustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/WS_HR_in_CBD_post2020_GBF_Report_FIN_200223.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }