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Land-Use Competition between Biodiversity and Net Zero Goals
…requiring more land for mining and processing these minerals. At the same time, the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework aims to protect 30% of the world's land by 2030, requiring an additional 20 million km² of land – an area slightly larger than South America – to be set aside for conservation.The IEA Renewable Energy and Land-Use Model (REALM) identifies potential overlaps between renewables development, energy transition minerals mining and biodiversity conservation. Natural Resources Canada and the IEA partnered to develop this analytical framework capable of highlighting where solar, wind and critical mineral development risk overlapping with important areas for biodiversity…
