The second session of Connecting Energies 2025: Civil Society Webinar Series explores how electricity corridors can become ecological assets rather than interruptions in the landscape. When managed selectively, these spaces can support bees, butterflies and other pollinators that signal healthy ecosystems. The webinar focuses on how evidence, drawn from field surveys, citizen science and satellite monitoring, can demonstrate measurable biodiversity gains in these linear habitats.
Participants will learn how Integrated Vegetation Management beneath power lines can create stable, flower-rich mosaics that enhance pollinator abundance and diversity while reducing maintenance demands. Building on this, the session introduces how Earth Observation tools can map habitat heterogeneity and floral resources, allowing the same ecological indicators to be tracked consistently across regions. These insights are then linked to governance frameworks that align ecological performance with asset management, policy disclosure and Nature-Positive reporting standards.
Designed for civil society, the session translates technical methods into accessible language and practical steps. By connecting pollinator monitoring with global reporting initiatives such as natural capital accounting and the forthcoming GINGR Framework, it shows how credible evidence can shape infrastructure decisions, ensuring the energy transition benefits both biodiversity and communities.
This webinar is presented by the Renewables Grid Initiative (RGI) and the Global Initiative for Nature, Grids and Renewables (GINGR).