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PV for biodiversity

PV’s contribution to a cleaner future can go well beyond generating emissions-free energy, but maximizing the opportunity is not always straightforward. Ragna Schmidt-Haupt, partner at Everoze and a board member at Skyray, argues that investors and lenders have to start making decisions today to fulfill the required disclosure regulations and make sure their fleet has a positive impact on biodiversity. The key challenge is to weigh the techno-economic-ecological risks, opportunities, costs and revenues.

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pv magazine

07 Sep 2021

Image: Christina Grätz/Nagola Re GmbH

SFDR and NFDR, EU taxonomy, Green New Deal, COP15 and COP26, Equator Principles, TCFD and TNFD – keeping track of the whirlwind of ecological sustainability regulations and recommendations can be a real challenge. One thing is clear, though – the application of the do-no-significant-harm principle of the EU taxonomy means that, while solar PV significantly …

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