This study examines land conflicts arising from solar park development in India, Kenya, and Mexico, where large-scale installations have led to disputes over land rights, displacement, and environmental concerns.
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This study examines land conflicts arising from solar park development in India, Kenya, and Mexico, where large-scale installations have led to disputes over land rights, displacement,
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Overall, our results suggest that the extent of land-use conflicts between solar farms and forests is small but widespread across the world. These results represent show how realization of climate mitigation targets through renewable energy may come at the cost of forests.
Our results show that, although non-residential solar farms tend to occur in cropland and grassland (Fig. 1 a and b), land-use conflicts between solar farms and forests were widespread (Fig. 1 a and b).
In countries where solar energy is underdeveloped, the deployment of solar farms will accelerate, potentially posing conflicts with finite land resources (Cherp et al., 2021). For this reason, there is increasing concern about the implications of solar farm expansion for the global land system (Capellán-Pérez et al., 2017).
Solar farm expansion is threatening the ability of forests to mitigate global climate change through carbon sequestration (Roebroek et al., 2023) and to maintain a stable provision of many other ecosystem services (Olesen et al., 2022). Our results suggest that 6320 existing solar farms (9.14%) occur within forests.
In line with previous research, we found that monthly average solar radiation results in an overestimation of monthly total power (Supplementary Figs. 15 and 16) (Lei et al., 2023). This overestimation should be kept in mind when interpreting solar energy derived from the monthly mean ESMs output.
Given that environmental expenses have not halted the placement of solar farms over forests, it is necessary to revisit the land-use conflicts between solar farms and forests and determine the extent of deforestation due to solar farm construction.
