A long-term investment in the energy of the future

Biodiversity entails supporting landscapes that can support several different species and large genetic varieties. It’s vital we protect biodiversity because of its central role in ensuring the survival of systems that support both nature and human life. Healthy biodiversity is crucial, for example, in underpinning the supply of clean water, air and the pollination of our crops for food production.

Scientists are also in agreement that the current pressure on biodiversity is very concerning. In the spring of 2018, the UN-established Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) published reports which assessed the loss of global ecological health to be as great a threat to the world as climate change. 

We must do better at protecting our biodiversity. To ensure the continued development of stable ecosystems, pollution and greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced and more of our landscape rewilded and given back to nature. 

Electricity generated by solar power is a crucial building block in the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions and will play a significant role in the electrification of the future. Solar power parks built on existing low value land also ensure that greenfield sites remain untouched, and existing biodiversity supported and allowed to flourish.