Sustainability

Biodiversity ‘is of key interest to investors in energy firms’

Energy companies are coming under increasing pressure to disclose their interactions with nature, according to Madeline Hodge of Denmark’s largest renewable energy provider

Madeline Hodge, lead sustainability adviser, Orsted, speaking at the Wind Energy Ireland annual conference in the Clayton Burlington Hotel in Dublin. Picture: Andres Poveda

Investors are becoming increasingly interested in what energy companies are doing to safeguard biodiversity, according to a leading industry expert.

Madeline Hodge, lead sustainability adviser at the renewable energy company Ørsted, also said there was increasing pressure on companies to disclose their various contacts with nature.

“You are seeing increasing investor interest in this space. They are wanting to understand how companies manage their biodiversity interactions, and that becomes a key component of their investor portfolio,” Hodge told the Business Post.