Fabio has a background in environmental sciences and his current academic research focuses on the environmental implications of land-use change for utility scale solar park development in the UK. Specifically, he is collating data on natural capital (e.g., soil, biodiversity) and ecosystem services (e.g., soil carbon storage) across solar parks in the UK under different land management regimes to understand how they can potentially affect hosting ecosystems but also integrate net environmental gain. This is of particular importance given the principle of 'public money for public goods' within the new Environmental Land Management Scheme (ELMS) provisioned by the 2020 Agriculture Act.