In a statement issued on Friday 4 February, environmental NGO ClientEarth announced that it had filed a request for internal review with the European Commission regarding its decision to classify bioenergy as ‘sustainable’ in the European Union’s taxonomy.
The NGO criticises the Commission for relying on “flawed” standards for the inclusion of biomass in the taxonomy - namely the standards provided for in the recast of the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive (RED II) - “instead of...