In a joint meeting on Tuesday 14 June, the European Parliament’s Environment (ENVI) and Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) Committees approved by a narrow majority an objection to the European Commission’s draft delegated act to include nuclear energy and fossil gas in the EU taxonomy.
Adopted in 2020, the EU Taxonomy Regulation (2020/852) aims to classify, through technical criteria, certain economic activities as environmentally sustainable in order to guide private investors...