Europe has entered a new year and a fresh political storm is already raging across the continent.
In the very last hours of 2021, the European Commission took the first steps to label natural gas and nuclear energy as green energy sources under the EU taxonomy, a technical rulebook that identifies sustainable activities that contribute to the green transition and comply with the Paris Agreement.
The backlash came with great speed and fury: Greenpeace blasted the plans as "licence to greenwash" and Austria raised the spectrum of legal action against the executive. The Commission stood its ground and argued the green label will be temporary because gas and nuclear will act as "transitional" technologies towards a carbon-neutral society.
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