The European Commission should relax the criteria for including forestry and bioenergy activities in the EU taxonomy, says a draft of the delegated act establishing the criteria for the climate taxonomy, obtained on 16 April by EUROPE (see EUROPE B12700A5).
Compared to the first draft of the delegated act published in November 2020 and submitted for public consultation (see EUROPE B12606A15), “changes were introduced to reduce complexity and burdens notably for smaller forest holdings”,...