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Effects of Marine Renewables and other marine uses on Biodiversity – Atlantic Area

20th November 2012, Lisbon, Hotel Lisboa Plaza

Dr. Ivan Scrase.

The RSPB / BirdLife Europe

Principles

• Low carbon technologies

• Avoid harm to birds and biodiversity

• Protect Europe’s most important sites for wildlife

High risk technologies

• Liquid biofuels

• Tidal range power

• New large hydro

Low risk technologies

• Energy savings measures

• Electric vehicles

• Heat pumps

• Rooftop solar thermal and PV

Medium risk technologies

• Solar PV arrays and CSP

• Wind power

• Tidal stream

• Wave

• Biomass for heat and power

• [Power lines]

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EU-27 additional renewables - 2005-2020

Solar thermal

Heat pumps

Electric vehicles from renewables

Onshore wind

Offshore wind

Solar photovoltaic

Concentrated solar power

Biomass for electricity

Biomass for heating

Geothermal for electricity

Geothermal for heating

Tidal, wave & ocean energy

Hydro

Liquid biofuels

“On the ground” (and on rooftops, at sea, in estuaries…)

• 19.4 million solar PV homes (4 kW)

• 170 concentrated solar power plants (50 MW)

• 59,000 onshore wind turbines (2 MW)

• 6,600 offshore turbines (8 MW)

• 5,100 tidal or wave turbines (1 MW)

• 194m tonnes of wood for electricity (odt)

• 88m tonnes of wood for heat (odt)

Commitment to renewables

• Post-2020 plans

• Binding targets

• R&D funds

• Grid development

Commitment to biodiversity

• Assess ecological sustainability of post-2020 plans

• Minimise capacity and infrastructure requirements

• Complete and protect the Natura 2000 network

• Guidance for member states and developers

Positive planning

• Early involvement of stakeholders, openness, transparency, incentives

• Promote sensitivity mapping and spatial planning

• Improve capacity and awareness in member states

• Robust, independent environmental assessments

• Promote low risk technologies and respect environmental limits

Dr Ivan Scrase The RSPB (BirdLife UK) ivan.scrase@rspb.org.uk http://europe.birdlife.org www.rspb.org.uk/climate