*[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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