Nuclear energy is needed to play a part in the global climate change mitigation challenge and evidence “shows clearly” that under current legislation the nuclear energy lifecycle does not cause significant harm to Europe’s sustainability objectives, a report by Energy for Humanity said.The report, funded by EDF Energy and prepared for the European commission technical expert group on sustainable finance, was published in response to the group’s report that proposed leaving nuclear energy out of the first version of the bloc’s sustainable finance taxonomy, pending further assessment.
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