It amounts to an 'anti-science plan' that 'represents the biggest greenwashing exercise of all time,' said Greenpeace E.U. campaigner Ariadna Rodrigo.
It amounts to an"anti-science plan" that"represents the biggest greenwashing exercise of all time," said Greenpeace E.U. campaigner Ariadna Rodrigo.The European Commission on Wednesday released a plan to label some nuclear and gas plants green—an announcement that set off a wave of accusations of"It makes a mockery of the E.U.'s claims to global leadership on climate and the environment."Greenpeace E.U.
Conditions applying to those fuels are"that they contribute to the transition to climate neutrality; for nuclear, that it fulfills nuclear and environmental safety requirements; and for gas, that it contributes to the transition from coal to renewables," the statement added. She said"it makes a mockery of the E.U.'s claims to global leadership on climate and the environment" and called"the inclusion of gas and nuclear in the taxonomy... increasingly difficult to explain as anything other than a giveaway to two desperate industries with powerful political friends.
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