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<DIV><FONT face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Dear all,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Our joint statement has gone live
on WWF EU's website and on our Twitter feed. The time to spread it is
now.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Furthermore, please find below a
link in Politico EU's sustainability newsletter this morning.</FONT><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><U><B>Please Find Action Points
Below</B></U></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><U>Action 1 - Spread and
Re-tweet</U></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><B>Please spread this amongst
your contacts! If possible, please use your Twitter and other social
media.</B></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><B>We have released a tweet which
you can re-tweet if you like. </B>Please find it here: </FONT><A
href="https://twitter.com/WWFEU/status/1173517676112691200?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet">https://twitter.com/WWFEU/status/1173517676112691200?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet</A></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><U>Action 2 - Suggested
tweets</U>:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Here are some suggested tweets,
if you want to post your own.</FONT></DIV><BR
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<DIV><FONT face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">1.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Gas and nuclear have
no place in a sustainable Europe. </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">They must not lobby
their way into EU guide to sustainable investments. </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Today, <FONT
color=#000000>50+ </FONT>NGOs call on policy-makers to listen to the
science and make a taxonomy for planet & people!</SPAN><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://www.wwf.eu/?uNewsID=353090"
target=_blank>http://www.wwf.eu/?uNewsID=353090</A>
#sustainablefinanceEU</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>2.</DIV>
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<DIV>EU investors need to know which economic sectors are sustainable.</DIV>
<DIV>Experts are developing a science-based "taxonomy".</DIV>
<DIV>But nuclear & gas lobbies are trying to undermine it.</DIV>
<DIV>TODAY, 50+ NGOs call for a strong taxonomy that works for planet &
people! </DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://www.wwf.eu/?uNewsID=353090"
target=_blank>http://www.wwf.eu/?uNewsID=353090</A></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><U>Action 3 - Signatures</U></DIV>
<DIV>We are still looking fro signatures - we are already on 55 and hope to get
to 100, eventually.</DIV>
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<DIV><B>Do not hesitate to write if you need anything - or you can ring me on
00447706025686.</B></DIV>
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<DIV>Best,</DIV>
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<DIV>Henry</DIV>
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<DIV>PS: <U style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Please also
find the text of a Politico EU newsletter which featured the NGO statement this
morning.</U></DIV></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',serif; MARGIN-LEFT: 0cm; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0cm"><STRONG>NGOS
EXPRESS TAXONOMY CONCERNS: </STRONG>Fifty NGOs today will outline <A
href="http://www.wwf.eu/?uNewsID=353090" target=_blank>their 10 top
concerns</A> on the European Commission’s proposed draft taxonomy to
determine sustainable investments. The list outlining green projects was <A
href="https://politico.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e26c1a1c392386a968d02fdbc&id=2ba4a3d376&e=04c71c0843"
target=_blank>published in June</A>, but needs to be strengthened, according to
the NGOs.</P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',serif; MARGIN-LEFT: 0cm; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0cm">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.</P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',serif; MARGIN-LEFT: 0cm; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0cm"><STRONG>Nuclear
pushback:</STRONG> That’s not sitting well with the nuclear lobby Foratom.
It <A
href="https://politico.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e26c1a1c392386a968d02fdbc&id=bbcb3ba58b&e=04c71c0843"
target=_blank>argues</A> 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.</P></DIV>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=heviston@wwf.eu href="mailto:heviston@wwf.eu">Henry Eviston</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, September 16, 2019 2:30 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Communications on Live NGO Statement - Ten Priorities for
Taxonomy Consultation</DIV>
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