Sustainable Finance: 130 NGO’er og eksperter slår alarm om EU’s bæredygtige klassifikationssystem – også kaldet “taksonomien”. I en detaljeret fælles erklæring fremlægger de ti prioriterede bekymringsområder i Europa-Kommissionens udkast. I mange af dem har Europa-Kommissionen har ignoreret anbefalingerne fra sin egen tekniske ekspertgruppe om taksonomi, som grundlæggende set var videnskabsbaseret og robust, lyder kritikken.
I erklæringen skriver NGO´erne bl.a.:
“While we recognise that the draft DA has taken into account the recommendations of the Commission’s Technical Expert Group (TEG) on the climate taxonomy to a large extent, we would like to voice substantial concerns that the draft DA has ignored or weakened the TEG’s scientific advice for several activities.”
Videre skriver de: “We outline the ten most important areas that need to be revised to produce a taxonomy that is based on scientific evidence, supports fully sustainable economic activities, accelerates the shift from unsustainable to sustainable activities, and truly reduces the risk of greenwashing. In addition to these ten priorities, we strongly support the development of an unsustainable taxonomy, which is crucial to reliably identify risky sectors and accelerate their transition.”
Underskriverne angiver dog, at Europa-Kommissionen med rette har sat en grænse for kuldioxid fra kraftværker, der udelukker, at fossile brændstoffer indgår i ‘bæredygtige’. Denne grænse er afgørende for taxonomiens integritet og bør opretholdes og strammes hvert femte år, som foreslået af den tekniske ekspertgruppe, for at bringe EU i retning af sit klimaneutralitetsmål.
Se statement og kritikken her:
De ti områder rejst af NGO’erne er:
Fossil fuels, incineration – economic activities that were rightly excluded and should not be reincluded
Bioenergy, hydropower, forestry, inland water transport, biofuels and biogas use in transport, hydrogen – economic activities to be improved with tighter criteria
Sea and coastal water transport, livestock – economic activities to be removed from the EU sustainable taxonomy
