On Thursday 11 November, Austria, Luxembourg, Denmark, Germany and Portugal issued a joint statement, calling for nuclear energy not to be included in the European Union’s taxonomy at the 26th session of the UN climate conference (COP26) in Glasgow.
“We are concerned that including nuclear power in the Taxonomy would permanently damage its integrity, credibility and therefore its usefulness”, the statement said, while recognising “the sovereign right of Member States to decide for...