Featured in A look beneath the surface – 02-2011

Promoting biodiversity

Biological Diversity: Globally, about 130 species are becoming extinct every day. To draw attention to this massive loss of plant and animal diversity, the United Nations declared 2010 to be the International Year of Biodiversity.

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Shamsiah Ali Oettinger

11 Feb 2011

What do PV and biodiversity have to do with each other? The energy shift towards sustainability is politically motivated, as climate change poses a threat to biodiversity. Renewable energies will deliver a steadily increasing proportion of the energy supply in the coming decades. By the growing utilization of sites which are needed for this purpose, …

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