IDOS is once again a partner in a European Biodiversa+ research consortium

The collaborative project TRANS4BIO explores how renewable energy can deliver climate-, nature- and people-positive outcomes.

IDOS is launching a research project funded by the EU’s BiodivTransform programme in collaboration with Swedish, Estonian and South African partners. TRANS4BIO (Integrated Energy Transition Across Scales for Climate-Resilient, Nature-and-People Positive Biodiversity Pathways) provides analysis that supports coordinated efforts to implement the energy transition in a way that ensures nature and people positive outcomes while reducing the risks posed by narrowly-focused climate mitigation policies.

TRANS4BIO addresses (1) governance misalignment between climate and biodiversity agendas that creates significant contradictions and implementation gaps, (2) spatial competition between renewable energy infrastructure and biodiversity conservation, (3) increased pressure on environmental systems from resource extraction driven by renewable energy infrastructure, with impacts transmitted through global supply chains. The research spans across mineral-rich extraction zones in South Africa, offshore wind development around Doggerbank in the North Sea, local implications of the energy transition in European and South African cities, and global climate and biodiversity negotiations.

Irit Ittner, examines how countries can align national energy interests with marine biodiversity conservation in transboundary settings.