{"id":435155,"date":"2025-09-10T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/09\/10\/nucleare-e-gas-fossile-possono-essere-verdi-tribunale-ue-respinge-il-ricorso-dellaustria-contro-la-commissione\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T14:03:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T12:03:22","slug":"nuclear-and-fossil-gas-can-be-labeled-green-eu-court-rejects-austrias-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/09\/10\/nuclear-and-fossil-gas-can-be-labeled-green-eu-court-rejects-austrias-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear and fossil gas can be labeled Green; EU Court rejects Austria\u2019s appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – Nuclear and fossil gas can have the “green” label of sustainability<\/strong>. The European Commission “was entitled to take the view” that certain economic activities in the nuclear energy and fossil
\ngas sectors can, under certain conditions, contribute substantially to climate change mitigation and climate
\nchange adaptation. For this reason, in a judgment<\/a>, the EU General Court annulled Austria’s appeal<\/strong> against the first von der Leyen Commission’s sustainability choices.<\/p>\n

 In 2022, the Commission
\nproduced a delegated regulation<\/a> that included nuclear and gas within the taxonomy, a set of criteria defining what constitutes an “eco-friendly” or “environmentally sustainable” economic activity within a production cycle. The government in Vienna challenged the decision, arguing that it was politically motivated and criticizing the polluting nature of the energy sources that Brussels had instead approved.<\/p>\n

 According to the Luxembourg judges, the Commission “was entitled to take the view” <\/strong>that nuclear energy generation has near-zero greenhouse gas emissions and that there are currently no technologically and economically feasible low-carbon alternatives at a sufficient scale, such as renewable energy sources, to cover the energy demand continuously and reliably.<\/p>\n

 Moreover, the Court said that the delegated regulation supports the notion that economic activities related to fossil gas “can, under certain conditions, contribute substantially” to climate change mitigation and adaptation. This is because the document adopts a “gradual approach based on a reduction of greenhouse gas
\nemissions in stages, while allowing for security of supply.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to the judges in Luxembourg, the Commission correctly recognized the benefits of nuclear energy. The delegated regulation is gradual in nature and ensures emission reductions and supply security<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":242944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[30800],"tags":[26897,25866,25905,28829,25992,25886,27634],"class_list":["post-435155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-austria-en","tag-energy-en","tag-green-deal-en","tag-tribunal-ue-en","tag-nucleare-en","tag-sustainability-en","tag-taxonomy-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435158,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435155\/revisions\/435158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}