From our correspondent in Brussels
Everything must be green, including finance.
This is the objective of the “green taxonomy”, a European regulation which defines the criteria for classifying and stamping, or not, industries with the sustainable label.
Enough to put an end to the “
greenwashing
” of private investors but also, indirectly, to condition access to public funding (national and European) in the future.
A nightmare for the nuclear industry, which could be excluded from the framework.
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Adopted in the summer of 2020, the regulation only laid down the generic framework of taxonomy.
Work is underway to define sustainability criteria, often very technical, for each area.
In a first document, the European Commission kicks in on the atom.
This hot topic was pushed back "
because the Member States have very different points of view
", acknowledges Kadri Simson, European Commissioner for Energy.
It points to the need for "
more evidence
" on the respect, by nuclear energy,
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