CLEANaction Coalition champions protection of nature while renewable infrastructure scales up
Posted on January, 12 2025
The CLEANaction 2024 Highlights report showcases practical examples of how to protect nature while scaling up renewable energy infrastructure.
Our world is in the midst of a growing a climate crisis. To help solve it, we must rapidly transform our global energy system from one reliant on fossil fuels to one powered by renewable energy.Changing our energy system is crucial to reduce emissions and protect people and nature from the worst impacts of climate change. Renewables are a clean source of energy and represent the best option. But we are also in the middle of a nature crisis, and the impact of renewable energy on biodiversity must be carefully managed.
In 2021, this thinking brought together like-minded organization together a new coalition, Coalition Linking Energy And Nature for action (CLEANaction). The six founder members are the Alliance for Rural Electrification (ARE), Birdlife International, the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI), the International Renewable Energy Association (IRENA), The Nature Conservancy (TNC), and WWF.
The goal of the Coalition is to ensure that the impact on nature by clean energy systems is fully accounted for prior to any installation. Now, three years since the formation of the Coalition, there are many more members, and a growing body of practical examples of ways to carefully assess the full impact of renewable energy projects, that help advance the global renewable energy transformation while prioritizing options that cause the least damage to nature.
The CLEANaction Highlights 2024 report is a collation of such examples. These examples bring together all those aware of the link between energy and nature to work collaboratively in spreading knowledge and driving solution-oriented approaches and results. This enables shared best practice, appropriate siting, bridging data gaps, knowledge-sharing, promoting the sustainable use of all forms of renewable energy, and more.
For more information, contact Dean Cooper at the Coalition here: cleanaction@wwfint.org
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