The EU’s General Court ruled that nuclear energy and fossil gas activities can be included in the EU Taxonomy, overruling objections from Austria aimed at keeping them out of the classification system of sustainable economic activities.
In its decision, the court ruled that in its move to include nuclear and fossil gas in the taxonomy, the EU Commission “was entitled to take the view that certain economic activities in the nuclear energy and fossil gas sectors can, under certain conditions, contribute substantially to climate change mitigation and climate change adaptation.”
The EU Taxonomy is part of the EU Action Plan on Sustainable Finance,
