Facilitating Policy Responses for Renewable Energy and Biodiversity

Alexandros Gasparatos; Abubakari Ahmed; Christina Voigt

doi:10.1016/j.tree.2021.01.013

Facilitating Policy Responses for Renewable Energy and Biodiversity

Trends Ecol Evol. 2021 May;36(5):377-380. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2021.01.013. Epub 2021 Feb 19.

Authors

Alexandros Gasparatos¹, Abubakari Ahmed², Christina Voigt³

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Future Initiatives (IFI), University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-8654, Japan; Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), United Nations University, Tokyo 150-8925, Japan. Electronic address: gasparatos@ifi.u-tokyo.ac.jp.
² Department of Planning, S.D. Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies (SDD UBIDS), Box WA64, Wa, Ghana.
³ University of Oslo, Department of Public and International Law, Oslo 0130, Norway.

PMID: 33618937
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2021.01.013

Abstract

Renewable energy contributes substantially to climate change mitigation, but its expansion can have trade-offs with biodiversity. These trade-offs could be reduced by building a strong evidence base, rationalizing the selection of sites and operational characteristics of renewable energy installations, and coordinating concerted policy efforts at the national and international levels.

Keywords: biodiversity conservation; biodiversity mainstreaming; multilateral environmental agreements; policy mismatches; trade-offs.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Biodiversity*
Climate Change
Conservation of Natural Resources*
Policy
Renewable Energy