Conference Agenda
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SF 09: Biodiversity Finance Location: LR M0.3 (Floor 0) Session Chair: Boris Vallee, INSEAD | |
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ID: 1162
Biodiversity Impacts of Renewable Energy 1: University of Zurich, Germany; 2: Swiss Finance Institute; 3: The University of Hong Kong Renewable energy is essential for mitigating climate change but can harm biodiversity through habitat loss. We combine spatial biodiversity data, satellite imagery, and asset-level information on 47,616 hydro, solar, and wind plants to construct a measure of their biodiversity impacts. Solar plants have high aggregate impacts due to land use, while hydro plants are often sited in biodiversity-sensitive areas. Impacts are highly concentrated, skewed, and vary across plants by owner type (listed versus unlisted, financial versus non-financial) and financing structure (project versus corporate finance). Counterfactual analyses show that nearby siting alternatives could reduce impacts substantially without foregoing renewable energy investment.
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