{"id":46235,"date":"2022-05-17T15:28:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T13:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/?p=46235"},"modified":"2022-05-17T15:38:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T13:38:33","slug":"take-action-eu-taxonomy-greenwashing-gas-nuclear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/issues\/climate-energy\/46235\/take-action-eu-taxonomy-greenwashing-gas-nuclear\/","title":{"rendered":"Take action: tell MEPs to stop the EU greenwashing of fossil gas and nuclear energy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2022\/05\/e7e48ccd-macro4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2022\/05\/e7e48ccd-macro4.png 800w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2022\/05\/e7e48ccd-macro4-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2022\/05\/e7e48ccd-macro4-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2022\/05\/e7e48ccd-macro4-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-eu-unit-stateless\/2022\/05\/e7e48ccd-macro4-340x340.png 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<script src=\"https:\/\/widget.proca.app\/d\/taxonomy\/greenpeaceeu\"><\/script>\n\n\n<p>Last year, the European Commission proposed which kind of energy should be considered green and how to set rules to support their development. Sounds great, right? But the plan has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/issues\/climate-energy\/46036\/taxonomy-nuclear-gas-attempted-robbery\/\">completely derailed<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>The Commission has put forward rules that would label fossil gas and nuclear energy as green, diverting the money that should be spent on the deployment of renewables. What a shameful act!<\/p>\n\n<p>Coming as a surprise to no one, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/issues\/climate-energy\/46227\/russian-doll-gas-nuclear-lobbying-taxonomy-eu\/\">Russia is one of the countries that would benefit the most <\/a>from the European Commission categorising these polluting energy sources as sustainable.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.greenpeace.fr\/site\/uploads\/2022\/05\/How-Russian-Companies-Lobbied-For-the-EU-Taxonomy-To-Include-Fossil-Gas-Nuclear-Energy-1.pdf\">New research<\/a> released today by Greenpeace France shows that massive Russian companies like Gazprom, Rosatom and Lukoil lobbied the European Commission to change the rules from what the Commission\u2019s own climate scientists advised.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>We need to make sure the EU sets rules that benefit you, your family, your community and our shared climate.<\/strong> <strong>That is why we need you to talk with your Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>We need to show MEPs that people in Europe want them to vote down this greenwashed plan, known in EU-speak as the \u201ctaxonomy delegated act\u201d or just taxonomy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>So far, politicians in Brussels have been hearing a lot from&nbsp; lobbyists representing Russian companies like Gazprom and Rosatom; companies that send their profits into funding Putin\u2019s war machine, and have no interest in your wellbeing and safety.<\/p>\n\n<p>Now it\u2019s time for Europe\u2019s politicians to hear from you.<\/p>\n\n<p>The taxonomy plan on the table represents Putin\u2019s interests, and if the taxonomy\u2019s new gas rules are fully taken up, Europe could be filling Russia\u2019s treasury with an extra \u20ac4 billion a year.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Will you let the story of Europe\u2019s energy transition be written by Putin, Gazprom and the nuclear industry?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>We deserve to live in a continent that is resilient, independent of climate-wrecking energy and focused on renewables. We need to make sure that the taxonomy paves the way to a peaceful future. You and I can make the European Parliament hear us.<\/p>\n\n<p><em>Ariadna Rodrigo is a sustainable finance campaigner at Greenpeace EU. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will you let the story of Europe\u2019s energy transition be written by Putin, Gazprom and the nuclear industry?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":46245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"not set","p4_local_project":"not set","p4_basket_name":"not set","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,47],"tags":[22,23,24,29,34],"p4-page-type":[54],"class_list":["post-46235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-energy","category-pollution","tag-climatechange","tag-democracy","tag-energytransition","tag-fossilfuels","tag-nuclear","p4-page-type-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46235"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46249,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46235\/revisions\/46249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46235"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/eu-unit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=46235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}