Posts with the tag "Europe and nuclear"

As the drama of the Taxonomy of sustainable investments continues to unfold, with the second delegated act – due to be published in mid-December –  stating the fate of nuclear and gas in the future energy mix of the Union, let us recall here how European Member States have historically used energy to shape their…

Germany, Luxembourg and Austria are now at the very heart of a coalition of countries that work at EU level, in the context of the Taxonomy negotiations. Their aim is to destroy any hope for a non-nuclear country with limited financial resources to use nuclear energy. All the while it becomes impossible to close our…

European Climate-Energy policies and nuclear: a disunited Union End the year with a symbol – the 1-year anniversary of Fessenheim arbitrary closure in France and start it with a leap – witnessing Sweden’s struggle with its own energy mix. Sweden is THE European country with the most virtuous and well-balanced electricity system – and to…

European Climate-Energy policies and nuclear: a disunited Union “We have heard just about every excuse not to build any power plants, ranging from it’s dangerous, it’s expensive, it takes too long to build and that it’s now too late to start building because we need fast emission reduction.” Sounds familiar? The above sentence is from…

A new hope. A country that takes its climate goals seriously. A country that calls on a panel of recognized technical experts to help answer them. A country that trusts its conclusions and looks at the comparative benefits and risks of the alternatives. A country that breaks free from fashionable trends to assess what is…

Episode 1 – Luxembourg We have already, and abundantly, addressed the question of the European classification system for sustainable activities, i.e. the EU taxonomy, in the newsletter of the Voices. We mentioned it already in December 2018 and the criticality of the topic has, early on and despite our obvious David and Goliath complex, encouraged…