*[Enwl-eng] URGENT: we need your voice on Commission's consultation on climate taxonomy

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Dear all,

Following your support for our previous appeals for signatures on the EU Taxonomy, we are coming back to you with a further update and a slightly worrying warning.

State of Play

You may have seen that, last month, the EU's Technical Expert Group (TEG) published their recommendations on the EU Taxonomy of Sustainable Activities - see the 'Technical Annex' here.

The report is relatively science-based and it integrated quite a number of issues that you helped us raise last September in the previous Ten Points Statement. Crucially, nuclear is out, fossil fuels are out, and waste incineration is also out. For more detail on our reaction to the report, see here.

What happens now?

We have put together another, updated, 'Ten Points' text, which we will soon ask you to sign, so we can forward it informally to key advocacy targets inside the Commission. 

However, the urgent thing is the Commission's consultation on the TEG technical recommendations, which closes next Monday 27/04. It is the last chance for public input before the Commission turns the criteria into the definitive taxonomy law (known as a delegated act). The page to submit this input is here. 

Now for the worrying bit. The nuclear and gas lobbies have already flooded this consultation page with answers, demanding that nuclear be re-included, asking for weaker thresholds on emissions, looking for more exemptions for biofuels... the usual!

European environmental NGOs must respond. It is important that we send lots of replies: the Commission will not read these consultations in detail, but will instead simply look at which activities are most discussed and whether their criteria are broadly opposed or supported. We need to make sure the Commission understands that nuclear, gas, and incineration do not belong in the sustainable taxonomy. 

What can I do?

Attached, you will find a template response to the consultation. Its length is adapted to the consultation's strict 4000-character limit.  

Could we ask you to

• Slightly modify/adapt the responses so they do not appear completely identical - copy-pasting weakens individual responses).
• Go to the consultation response page - click here - you may have to register, but please do!
• Submit your answers!

Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you need any clarification or if we can assist with this process - we are happy to help.

Best wishes,

Henry

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HENRY EVISTON | Sustainable Finance Policy Officer | 

WWF European Policy Office | 

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From: Henry Eviston

Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 11:16 PM

Subject: URGENT: we need your voice on Commission's consultation on climate taxonomy

 

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