The European Commission’s sustainable finance taxonomy bears all the hallmarks of failed governance: opacity, imprecision, and subjectivity with a punitive approach albeit not assumed, writes Daniel...
EU’s sustainable finance taxonomy alarms Finnish industry and business
The leaked European Commission proposal on Sustainable Finance Taxonomy is worrying and infuriating for industries and businesses in Finland and across the Nordics. If implemented, the proposed EU...
What’s on the table for nuclear in the final months of 2020
Yves Desbazeille, FORATOM Director General The summer season in Brussels is officially over. This means the revival of regular activities across all EU institutions, which – as always – have a very...
Green finance: Parliament adopts criteria for sustainable investments
New rules to determine whether an economic activity is environmentally sustainable are ready to be implemented. Parliament has adopted new legislation on sustainable investments. It lays down six...
CEPN report confirms safe management of radioactive waste
In April 2020, the CEPN (Centre d’Etude sur l’Evaluation de la Protection dans le Domaine Nucleaire - Centre for Studies on Evaluating Protection within the Nuclear Field) published a report...
European Taxonomy / France’s CEA Calls For ‘Thorough Analysis’ Of Nuclear Energy
France’s Atomic and Alternative Energies Commission (CEA) has called on the European Commission not to make a decision on which sectors should be included in the bloc’s taxonomy before a thorough...
Emission thresholds in EU green finance taxonomy are too high. Here’s why
Carbon dioxide emission limits in the EU taxonomy suggested by the technical expert group are too high and will make it virtually impossible to reach EU climate goals for 2030 and 2050, argues a...
Sustainable finance: Council adopts a unified EU classification system
The EU is putting in place a common classification system to encourage private investment in sustainable growth and contribute to a climate neutral economy. The Council today adopted a regulation...