Cloudberry Annual report 2022 Sustainability report 56 Cloudberry’s operations are closely linked with nature and biodiversity in two ways. First, through the production of renewable energy, we positively impact the energy transition which addresses the climate crisis. On the other hand, building power plants has a negative impact on the natural areas and biodiversity where we operate, using natural habitat, destroying local plant life, disturbing wildlife, and impacting people and animals with noise and visual disruption. Hydropower plants disrupt water flow, change sedimentation patterns downstream, create obstacles for fish, and in some cases create lakes and flood large areas. Wind farms also impact the natural environment, both onshore and offshore. The main impacts of onshore wind farms include the prominence of wind turbines in the landscape, shadows, and noise. Offshore wind turbines are less prominent, especially if they are far from the shore, although they still disrupt the local ecosystem visually and with noise, in addition to disrupting the above water visual landscape. To protect sea life, there are also specific environmental impacts to address when constructing offshore wind farms. Our approach We aim to contribute to stopping the loss of, and even improving, biodiversity. An important part of this is ensuring that everyone at Cloudberry understands what biodiversity is and why it is important. This knowledge will allow biodiversity protection to be integrated into every aspect of Cloudberry’s work. To structure our work with biodiversity, we will look to frameworks such as the Taskforce on Naturerelated Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and the Science Based Target Network’s (SBTN) upcoming guidance for working with nature protection. The “mitigation hierarchy”, is a valuable tool that helps development projects prepare for impacts and aim to achieve no net loss of biodiversity. The first step in the hierarchy is to avoid impacting nature where possible. Where impacts are unavoidable, we try to minimize them. The next step is to restore the damaged nature after
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