Wind Turbines and Bat Populations

Introduction

Noting the importance that wind energy has in the implementation of the Kyoto protocol to reduce CO2 emissions and recalling the Agreement's Conservation and Management Plans, which call for the conservation of bat habitats in all cases of land management and development especially when foraging areas or commuting routes are affected, the IWG was requested to

Assess the evidence of the impacts of wind turbines on bat populations and, if appropriate, to develop guidelines for assessing potential impacts on bats and for the establishment of wind turbines in accordance with the ecological requirements of bat populations;
Continue to update the generic guidelines and compile relevant information, including methods to assess the impact on bat populations.

Resolutions:

4th Session of the Meeting of Parties, Sofia, Bulgaria, 22 – 24 September 2003: Resolution 4.7 (effective)

5th Session of the Meeting of Parties, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 4 – 6 September 2006: Resolution 5.6

6th Session of the Meeting of Parties, Prague, Czech Republic, 20 – 22 September 2010: Resolution 6.11

7th Session of the Meeting of the Parties, Brussels, Belgium, 15 – 17 September 2014: Resolution 7.5

8th Session of the Meeting of the Parties, Monte Carlo, Monaco, 8 – 10 October 2018: Resolution 8.4 (effective)

Reports:

10th Meeting of the Advisory Committee, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, 25 – 27 April 2005

11th Meeting of the Advisory Committee, City of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 8 – 10 May 2006

14th Meeting of the Advisory Committee,Tochni / Larnaca, Cyprus, 11 – 13 May 2009

15th Meeting of the Advisory Committee, Bonn, Germany, 3 – 6 May 2010

16th Meeting of the Advisory Committee, Tbilisi, Georgia, 4 – 6 April 2011

17th Meeting of the Advisory Committee, Dublin, Ireland, 15 – 17 May 2012

18th Meeting of the Advisory Committee, Sofia, Bulgaria, 15 – 17 April 2013

19th Meeting of the Advisory Committee, Heraklion, Greece, 7 – 10 April 2014

20th Meeting of the Advisory Committee Budva, Montenegro, 23 – 25 March 2015

21st Meeting of the Advisory Committee, Zandvoort, the Netherlands, 18 – 20 April 2016

22nd Meeting of the Advisory Committee Belgrade, Serbia, 27 – 29 March 2017

23rd Meeting of the Advisory Committee, Tallinn, Estonia, 14 – 17 May 2018

24th Meeting of the Advisory Committee Skopje, North Macedonia, 1 – 3 April 2019

27th Meeting of the Advisory Committee Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 27 - 29 March, 2023

EUROBATS publications:

EUROBATS Publication Series No. 3: Guidelines for consideration of bats in wind farm projects

Available in English, French, German, Romanian and Polish

EUROBATS Publication Series No. 6: Guidelines for consideration of bats in wind farm projects. Revision 2014.

Available in English

Other relevant publications:

Impacts of Wind Energy Development on Bats: A Global Perspective. Authors: Edward B. Arnett , Erin F. Baerwald, Fiona Mathews, Luisa Rodrigues, Armando Rodríguez-Durán, Jens Rydell, Rafael Villegas-Patraca, Christian C. Voigt. In: Bats in the Anthropocene: Conservation of Bats in a Changing World

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