Thursday, July 9, 2026

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Room C3

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The shift toward renewable energy answers demands to curb emissions for mitigating climate change but poses threats to biodiversity (Rehbein et al. 2020; Sandfort et al. 2025). The aims of the round table session – which build on previous research activities focused on Austria (Sandfort et al. 2025) and link to a new EU Biodiversa Project BIOGAIN – are to share knowledge about the current and future status in diverse countries and regions regarding (i) the need for additional data on species and habitats to inform the transition toward spatial energy planning that improves biodiversity (i.e., net gain), and (ii) the role of recent developments in AI-supported collection and analysis of such data (e.g., Branco et al. 2023) as well as iii) the demand to ameliorate the science-policy-action interface with respect to quality assurance and implementation of new standards suitable for spatial planning and adaptive-management processes (Morán‐Ordóñez et al. 2025). We will focus on a) the orientation towards net-gain considering the mitigation hierarchy to enforce enhancement by implementation of mitigation and compensation measures instead of hindering degradation only (Kørnøv et al. 2025) and b) the consideration of cumulative impacts deriving from different levels of renewable energy development within the same type of energy production (e.g., wind) and across different types of energy production (Sandfort et al. 2025). In this interactive session we will explore case studies. In the field of solar and wind energy as a starting point three impulse presentations will contextualize the political framing conditions (e.g. RED III), technical innovations and net-gain perspectives.

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