A coalition of 21 national and European Members of Parliament from different political groups sent a joint letter to the European Commission on Tuesday 16 November calling on it not to classify nuclear power and fossil gas as “sustainable” investments in the European Union’s taxonomy.
“The Commission should exclude gas and nuclear power from the Green Taxonomy - a classification system designed to help investors by determining which economic activities can be considered sustainable - to ensure its credibility and to steer investments towards truly sustainable energy sources”, they say.
Calling for the taxonomy to be reserved “for truly green products”, the letter’s signatories argue that the inclusion of nuclear and fossil gas in the taxonomy would place these energy sources “on almost the same ecological level as the construction of wind turbines and solar plants”.
They also point out that keeping nuclear and gas out of the taxonomy does not mean that these energy sources will be banned.
As the Commission plans to present a delegated act on fossil gas and nuclear before the end of the year to complement the EU Regulation (2020/852) on taxonomy, the issue is dividing EU Member States (see EUROPE 12831/9, 12810/24).
See the letter: https://bit.ly/3ciHizi (Original version in French by Damien Genicot)