Enabling a nature-positive energy transition

Renewable energy plays a vital role in mitigating climate change, but the deployment of solar, wind, and grid infrastructure can interact with surrounding ecosystems in complex ways. Understanding these impacts. and how to minimise them, is essential to ensure the energy transition works with nature, not against it. Two key reports are examined, covering renewable energy's local environmental impacts and nature-positive siting and permitting principles — highlighting measures, policies, and best practices for developers, investors, and policymakers to reduce negative impacts, restore degraded land, and enable a nature-positive energy transition. Read Local Environmental Impacts of Large-scale Solar PV Plants here: https://www.irena.org/Publications/20... Read Nature-positive Energy Principles: Environmental Siting and Permitting of Solar, Wind and Grid Infrastructure here: https://coalition.irena.org/Publications For more on the Insights Webinar Series: https://www.irena.org/Events/2020/Jun...