Connecting Pollinator Corridors: Using evidence and monitoring to deliver a Nature-Positive grid

GINGR and the Renewables Grid Initiative (RGI) hosted Connecting Pollinator Corridors: Using evidence and monitoring to deliver a Nature-Positive grid on 11 December 2025 to explore the practical challenge of measuring biodiversity outcomes in energy infrastructure, and how pollinators can indicate whether electricity corridors are truly delivering Nature- and People-Positive outcomes.

During this second session of Connecting Energies 2025: Civil Society Webinar Series, participants learnt how electricity corridors can become ecological assets rather than interruptions in the landscape. The session examined how evidence from field surveys, citizen science, and Earth Observation can be combined to demonstrate measurable biodiversity gains in linear habitats. It also explored how Integrated Vegetation Management (IVM) can create stable, flower-rich mosaics beneath power lines that support pollinator abundance and diversity while reducing long-term maintenance pressures.

With speakers from Rutgers University, the University of Oxford, Fingrid, and GINGR/RGI, we connected on-the-ground corridor management with scalable monitoring approaches, and with governance and reporting needs. The discussion also linked these methods to GINGR’s work on Linear Infrastructure, including the development of indicators that translate ecological complexity into decision-ready metrics.

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CHAPTERS

00:00:00 Welcome and housekeeping
00:02:10 About GINGR/RGI and today’s agenda
00:05:46 Dr Kimberly Russell - IVM and wild bees in transmission corridors
00:22:37 Kendall Jefferys - Remote sensing for pollinator habitat monitoring
00:37:27 Tiina Seppänen - Fingrid practice: landowners and corridor delivery
00:49:33 Adrián Maté - Turning evidence into Nature-Positive metrics (GINGR Framework)
00:59:19 Q&A opens - discussion themes and framing
01:06:37 Q&A - engaging landowners and practical implementation
01:08:15 Q&A - comparing management methods across regions
01:15:38 Q&A - indicators, impacts, and linking nature and people outcomes
01:19:25 Q&A - is a pollinator focus enough to build support?
01:23:33 Closing question - what progress should we see in five years?
01:28:18 Wrap-up and next steps