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Macron in favour of integrating nuclear into EU green taxonomy
(EurActiv, 3 Dec 2021) President Emmanuel Macron said he favours “nuclear power being integrated into the taxonomy” on green finance in an address before the European Committee of the Regions on Wednesday (1 December). EURACTIV France reports.
The French leader said he was taking a position based on experts from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), for whom “nuclear power is one of the solutions to decarbonise our economies”.
Macron backed up his argument by stressing the intermittent nature of renewable energies.
“Our strategy is to decarbonise our economies. To do this, we need renewable energies,” he said, noting that these are “intermittent, and thus not totally substitutable, even with our interconnections [in Europe], for non-intermittent sources of electricity production” such as gas or nuclear power.
However, according to him, nuclear is among the energy sources that “emit the least CO2”. “Gas produces more CO2; nuclear is much better,” he added.
With the bloc’s priority being the phase-out of fossil fuels, starting with the most polluting coal, Macron said states would move towards gas and nuclear.
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