It's tilting at windmills - in the truest sense of meaning: The EU Commission has presented its plan for the future taxonomy regulation with nuclear energy and natural gas to be declared as sustainable - protest followed promptly.
Actually, the EU's taxonomy regulation is intended as an instrument to give investors orientation and to direct capital into the restructuring of energy production and the economy. Thus private investments in green and sustainable projects should be able to contribute to the European Green Deal.
Now, the expected dispute has erupted over the as-yet-unadopted order. On New Year's Eve, of all nights, the EU Commission published the long-awaited recommendations - declaring nuclear power and natural gas as green energies for the ...