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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12987

7 July 2022
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / Climate/finance
Parliament gives green light to inclusion of fossil gas and nuclear energy in EU taxonomy
Brussels, 06/07/2022 (Agence Europe)

Meeting in Strasbourg for a plenary session of the European Parliament, MEPs rejected, on Wednesday 6 July, a proposed objection to the European Commission’s draft delegated act to include fossil gas and nuclear energy in the EU taxonomy as ‘transitional’ activities, clearing the way for the delegated act to enter into force.

Specifically, this means that electricity generation from fossil gas and nuclear power will be included in the taxonomy - a classification system listing...

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