Ensuring a nature-positive energy transition
Ensuring a nature-positive energy transition
Ensuring a nature-positive energy transition
The energy transition is urgent, but it can't come at the cost of our unique and precious nature, writes Janina Waldmann.
"If nature isn’t front and centre of the energy transition, we risk forging a double edged sword—destroying desperately needed habitats, accelerating biodiversity loss and harming our unique and precious ecosystems in the name of climate action.
Protecting nature as the country transitions to renewable energy is not just an ethical imperative; it’s critical to the future of Australia’s economy as well. In its Global Risks Report for 2025, the World Economic Forum ranks extreme weather events, and biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse as the top risks to the global economy over the next ten years."