Plan to protect threatened species in energy transition
According to the study, which better plans to strengthen the trust of the people in clean energy passage, Australia’s threats and plants can be protected while causing renewable energy sources.
Researchers at the Australian Protection Foundation and Melbourne University can be protected up to 90 percent of high -valuable habitats, avoiding one third of the land needed by threat species.
Mapping with more than 2000 species, such as Koalas, Womats and glider, listed under threat, shows that most of the risk species live close to each other and that their habitats can be easily identified and prevented.
Paul Sinclair, General Manager of the Foundation, said that the federal government should invest in the right mapping to ensure that nature and renewable energy infrastructure may exist together.
“Now we have the tools and tools of doing it, Dr Dr Sinclair said AAP.
“(Minister of Environment) Murray Watt may finance this mapping tomorrow to help us define these areas that we need to protect, but it may be really clear about the areas that are suitable for the projects that our country needs.”
Apart from the Australian National Science Agency CSIRO, the analysis has shown that continuously renewable energy is the lowest cost for low emission electricity generation.
However, the renewable report for Nature said that the poorly planned and positioned power infrastructure faces the risk of weakening public trust at a time when renewable energies should expand rapidly.
Researchers emphasized examples of a renewable construction path -led road in Queensland, existing transmission lines in Victoria, and examples of wind farms that could use a solar farm in a sheep property in NSW.
Dr Sinclair said it would be a way to rely on the energy transition, to have public data and matching to show planning.
“We know that we need to increase the amount of renewable energy two or three times since we currently have it,” he said.
He continued: “So to obtain the way of planning and building infrastructure planning and building … Rights, avoiding social conflict will pay back for generations and unnecessarily overturned Bush will invalidate the costs of restoring.”
