On Friday 2 July, the European Commission published the opinions of the two bodies responsible for examining the report of its internal scientific service (the Joint Research Centre or JRC) on the potential inclusion of nuclear energy in the European Union’s taxonomy. While they point to some shortcomings in the JRC report, both evaluations are relatively positive.
Aiming to determine whether nuclear power generation meets the ‘do no significant harm’ (DNSH) criterion set out in the...