Climate Protection and Environmental Interests in Renewable Energy Law (eBook)

This book is about environmental and climate legal protection in the energy transition. The Paris Agreement has a binding commitment of holding the global temperature increase to 2°C while pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5°C. To cope with the negative effects of climate changes and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, one of the primary responses has been the deployment of renewable energy sources, transiting from fossil fuels to sustainable electricity production. However, renewable energy sources can also cause significant environmental impacts. Wind energy, for instance, can impact biodiversity, such as birds and bats, killing them when colliding with turbines and affecting their migration and nesting.

PauIa Galbiatti Silveira works as a Subject Matter Expert at a private consultancy company, researching and developing legal guidelines for sustainability in products compliance and managing climate-related disclosure and reporting. She also works as a private consultant in Brazil for specific projects, such as in 2015 for the Brazilian National Agency for Land Transportation and the Transport and Logistics Laboratory in the analysis of environmental legislation applicable to services of rail passenger transport, and currently for the legal analysis of energy transition in isolated systems in the Brazilian Amazon, funded by GIZ.