{"id":3661,"date":"2023-04-19T18:27:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T16:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/en\/?p=3661"},"modified":"2024-03-18T11:47:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T09:47:19","slug":"eu-commission-defines-new-sustainability-criteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/en\/eu-commission-defines-new-sustainability-criteria\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Commission defines new sustainability criteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In order to promote sustainable business activities, the EU taxonomy has been introduced. This is a system that classifies environmentally sustainable business activities. Companies must provide information on how &#8220;green&#8221; their activities are. Now the EU Commission has published a proposal that expands the criteria and requires more companies to report.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-overflow:visible;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"width:calc( 100% + 0px ) !important;max-width:calc( 100% + 0px ) !important;margin-left: calc(-0px \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-0px \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column fusion-flex-align-self-flex-start fusion-column-no-min-height\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:0px;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:0px;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:0px;--awb-spacing-left-medium:0px;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:0px;--awb-spacing-left-small:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div id=\"attachment_3662\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/nature-g8a98e375e_640.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3662\" class=\"lazyload size-medium wp-image-3662\" src=\"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/nature-g8a98e375e_640-300x200.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/nature-g8a98e375e_640-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27300%27%20height%3D%27200%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20300%20200%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27300%27%20height%3D%27200%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/nature-g8a98e375e_640-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/nature-g8a98e375e_640-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/nature-g8a98e375e_640-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/nature-g8a98e375e_640-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/nature-g8a98e375e_640.jpg 640w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3662\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The taxonomy is an EU-wide system for classifying sustainable economic activities. (Image source: Pixabay)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Changes concerning climate and environment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Regarding the environment, the EU Commission proposes to include four additional criteria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>sustainable use and protection of water and marine resources<\/li>\n<li>transition to a circular economy<\/li>\n<li>prevention and reduction of environmental pollution<\/li>\n<li>protection and restoration of biodiversity and ecosystems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Amendment of the Taxonomy Regulation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Commission intends to introduce new reporting requirements on sustainability (amending Art. 8 of the Taxonomy Regulation). Accordingly, companies affected by the reporting obligation will in future have to provide information on the extent to which their business activities are linked to &#8220;environmentally sustainable&#8221; economic activities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Taxonomy under criticism<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since January this year, the taxonomy regulation also allows investments that go into the natural gas and nuclear power industries to be considered sustainable. This has been met with a great deal of criticism. BUND, Greenpeace and WWF have therefore filed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tagesschau.de\/ausland\/europa\/klage-taxonomie-klima-101.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">complaint with the European Court of Justice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal oft he EU-Commission can be downloaded <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/info\/law\/better-regulation\/have-your-say\/initiatives\/13237-Nachhaltige-Investitionen-EU-Umwelttaxonomie_de\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Quellen: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dihk.de\/de\/themen-und-positionen\/europaeische-wirtschaftspolitik\/konsultation-zur-veroeffentlichung-neuer-nachhaltigkeitskriterien--94004\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DIHK<\/a>, <a href=\"EU%20Commission%20defines%20new%20sustainability%20criteria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EU-Commission<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tagesschau.de\/ausland\/europa\/klage-taxonomie-klima-101.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tagesschau<\/a>(german)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to promote sustainable business activities, the EU taxonomy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>EU Commission defines new sustainability criteria - Nicola Bernard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/en\/eu-commission-defines-new-sustainability-criteria\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"EU Commission defines new sustainability criteria - Nicola Bernard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In order to promote sustainable business activities, the EU taxonomy [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/en\/eu-commission-defines-new-sustainability-criteria\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nicola Bernard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-04-19T16:27:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-03-18T09:47:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/nature-g8a98e375e_640-300x200.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"nicola.bernard\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"nicola.bernard\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/en\/eu-commission-defines-new-sustainability-criteria\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/en\/eu-commission-defines-new-sustainability-criteria\/\",\"name\":\"EU Commission defines new sustainability criteria - Nicola Bernard\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/en\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/en\/eu-commission-defines-new-sustainability-criteria\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/en\/eu-commission-defines-new-sustainability-criteria\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/nature-g8a98e375e_640-300x200.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-04-19T16:27:05+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-03-18T09:47:19+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/7a09693188c7e9880d798b5b412350a4\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/en\/eu-commission-defines-new-sustainability-criteria\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/en\/eu-commission-defines-new-sustainability-criteria\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/nature-g8a98e375e_640-300x200.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/nature-g8a98e375e_640-300x200.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nicola-bernard.de\/en\/\",\"name\":\"Nicola Bernard\",\"description\":\"Serviceb\u00fcro f. 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