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2023: Valuation of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in the Agriculture-Conservation-Solar Energy Matrix (TNC)
Solar energy provides a necessary means by which to mitigate climate change and to facilitate the energy transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy globally. However, solar energy development is a major driver of land-use change and there currently exist great potential for land-use competition between solar energy development and agriculture. This project will inform sustainable solar energy development in New York by elucidating key biodiversity and ecosystem-service based values of lands in the land-use matrix of agriculture, solar energy, and conservation.
Cornell Investigator: Steve Grodsky, Natural Resources and the Environment
TNC: Liz Kalies