Wind power development and biodiversity

This article discusses the need to balance the deployment of renewable energy with the avoidance of adverse environmental impacts, focusing in particular on bird strikes associated with wind power generation, in the context of Japan’s goals of achieving carbon neutrality and a society in harmony with nature by 2050. The Japanese version of the article is on np-journal webseite (https://np-journal.jp/articles/academia-09/). English version of Figure 1 of the article can be found at Ohashi, H., Hasegawa, T., Hirata, A. et al. Biodiversity can benefit from climate stabilization despite adverse side effects of land-based mitigation. Nat Commun 10, 5240 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13241-y