On Wednesday 21 April, the European Commission presented the delegated act on the ‘climate change mitigation’ and ‘climate change adaptation’ parts of the European Union’s taxonomy. Although natural gas and nuclear power are not among the sectors covered by this first delegated Regulation, they could be included in the taxonomy by the end of the year, through a second delegated act on the climate component.
This long-awaited text establishes technical criteria to define which...