*[Enwl-eng] Communications on Live NGO Statement - Ten Priorities for Taxonomy Consultation

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Dear all,

Our joint statement has gone live on WWF EU's website and on our Twitter feed. The time to spread it is now.

Furthermore, please find below a link in Politico EU's sustainability newsletter this morning. 

Please Find Action Points Below

Action 1 - Spread and Re-tweet

Please spread this amongst your contacts! If possible, please use your Twitter and other social media.

We have released a tweet which you can re-tweet if you like. Please find it here: https://twitter.com/WWFEU/status/1173517676112691200?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

Action 2 - Suggested tweets:

Here are some suggested tweets, if you want to post your own.

1.

Gas and nuclear have no place in a sustainable Europe. 

They must not lobby their way into EU guide to sustainable investments. 

Today, 50+ NGOs call on policy-makers to listen to the science and make a taxonomy for planet & people!

http://www.wwf.eu/?uNewsID=353090   #sustainablefinanceEU

2.

EU investors need to know which economic sectors are sustainable.

Experts are developing a science-based "taxonomy".

But nuclear & gas lobbies are trying to undermine it.

TODAY, 50+ NGOs call for a strong taxonomy that works for planet & people! 

http://www.wwf.eu/?uNewsID=353090

Action 3 - Signatures

We are still looking fro signatures - we are already on 55 and hope to get to 100, eventually.

Do not hesitate to write if you need anything - or you can ring me on 00447706025686.

Best,

Henry

PS: Please also find the text of a Politico EU newsletter which featured the NGO statement this morning.

NGOS EXPRESS TAXONOMY CONCERNS: Fifty NGOs today will outline their 10 top concerns on the European Commission’s proposed draft taxonomy to determine sustainable investments. The list outlining green projects was published in June, but needs to be strengthened, according to the NGOs.

They say that criteria for bioenergy — burning wood or crops for heat or power — forestry and hydropower should be tightened; livestock breeding (except for organic livestock), biofuels for transport, and fossil fuel vehicles and ships should be excluded from the list; and finally nuclear power, fossil fuel generation and waste incineration — which were excluded by experts — should be left out, despite a strong industry push to categorize nuclear as green. The draft taxonomy is a “proper framework for a science-based taxonomy … Alarmingly, conservative lobbies like gas and nuclear are trying to weaken this work. We must make sure they fail,” said Sébastien Godinot, WWF Europe’s economist.

Nuclear pushback: That’s not sitting well with the nuclear lobby Foratom. It argues that excluding nuclear “is in total contradiction with EU climate policy.” Nuclear power was excluded from the taxonomy list because it creates environmentally toxic waste — but the industry says that this criteria was applied arbitrarily.  “For other technologies, however, the waste criteria do not appear to have been applied in the same way ([for example] power producing technologies which generate toxic waste at the end of their useful life),” Foratom writes, calling on the Commission to review the list and include nuclear.

 

HENRY EVISTON | Sustainable Finance Policy Assistant | 

WWF European Policy Office | 

123 rue du Commerce,1000 Brussels, Belgium | 

EU Transparency Register Nr: 1414929419-24 | 

Mobile: +44 770 602 5686 | 

www.wwf.eu | 

 

 

From: Henry Eviston

Sent: Monday, September 16, 2019 2:30 PM

Subject: Communications on Live NGO Statement - Ten Priorities for Taxonomy Consultation

 

 

 

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