Anuna De Wever Instagram – Taxono- what? 🤔
Have you seen the word taxonomy trending in the last weeks, but aren’t really sure what it’s actually about?
I got you.
🇪🇺 The EU taxonomy is a system that classifies and lists ‘environmentally sustainable economic activities’ to provide companies, investors and policymakers with definitions, for which economic activities can be considered ‘green’. In essence, this is created to prevent greenwashing.
However, the European Commission has recently labeled both nuclear and fossil gas activities as ‘green activities’ 🤦🏼♂️
Why is this problematic?
🌱 The construction of new nuclear power plants and gas plants are not in line with the 1.5°C trajectory and are not the most sustainable energy available, both economically or environmentally.
❌ Classifying these energy sources as green would mean that companies and industries can keep investing and burning fossil fuels for years to come. This is irresponsible and it completely destroys the actual purpose of the Green Deal.
🚨 The window to meaningfully change things and not to reach any tipping points becomes smaller every day. New fossil fuel infrastructure is the last thing we can allow to happen.
📣 We cannot let this happen. We need your help to fight this, and to keep those fossil fuels in the ground.
Stay tuned to find out what you can do in the coming weeks! 🔥 | Posted on 11/Feb/2022 16:45:51
