{"id":8296,"date":"2021-01-28T10:18:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T09:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reclaimfinance.org\/site\/?p=8296"},"modified":"2023-02-28T18:21:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T17:21:59","slug":"eu-taxonomy-improves-transparency-dont-pretend-its-bogeyman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reclaimfinance.org\/site\/en\/2021\/01\/28\/eu-taxonomy-improves-transparency-dont-pretend-its-bogeyman\/","title":{"rendered":"The EU taxonomy just improves transparency, don\u2019t pretend it\u2019s the bogeyman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-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-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"color: #8ac56b;\">The road to a<span style=\"color: #8ac56b;\">n <\/span><\/strong><strong style=\"color: #8ac56b;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/info\/business-economy-euro\/banking-and-finance\/sustainable-finance\/eu-taxonomy-sustainable-activities_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u><span style=\"color: #8ac56b;\">EU taxonomy<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/strong><strong style=\"color: #8ac56b;\"><span style=\"color: #8ac56b;\"> (1) has not been a peaceful one. This key piece of the EU Sustainable Finance Strategy is a necessary tool to steer private and public financial flows toward activities that enable the European ecological transition. It generates fear in high-carbon and environmentally harmful industries, whose lobbyists joined forces to weaken the new framework (2). While the first se<\/span><span style=\"color: #8ac56b;\">t of delegated <\/span><span style=\"color: #8ac56b;\">acts are almost finalized, the EU Commission reached out to the <\/span><\/strong><strong style=\"color: #8ac56b;\"><u><a style=\"color: #8ac56b;\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/info\/business-economy-euro\/banking-and-finance\/sustainable-finance\/overview-sustainable-finance\/platform-sustainable-finance_en#activities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Platform on Sustainable Finance<\/a><\/u><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #8ac56b;\"><span style=\"color: #8ac56b;\"> to <\/span>ask it to explore changes that could severely undermine the taxonomy framework. This decision is a concession to the advocates of polluting industries that wants people to believe the taxonomy is the bogeyman that will end entire economic sectors.<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In January 2021, <b>the EU Commission sent a seemingly harmless <u><a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/info\/sites\/info\/files\/business_economy_euro\/banking_and_finance\/documents\/210118-commission-request-transition-financing_en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter<\/a><\/u> asking its Platform on Sustainable Finance to provide advice on \u00ab\u00a0the existing and potential use of the EU taxonomy framework for enabling the financing of the transition towards a sustainable economy\u00a0\u00bb<\/b> by mid-M<span style=\"color: rgb(229, 227, 227);\">arch 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(229, 227, 227);\">If the headline of this letter does not sound worrying, its content should be carefully examined. Indeed, <\/span><strong style=\"color: rgb(229, 227, 227);\">the EU Commission asks several questions that open the door to a weakening of the taxonomy framework<\/strong><span style=\"color: rgb(229, 227, 227);\"> (3). Pretexting the need to increase flexibility and finance the transition of \u201cnon-green\u201d sectors, this new procedure could lead to the inclusion of activities currently excluded from it. This risk is clearly visible in <\/span><u><a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/info\/files\/210120-statement-eu-platform-on-sustainable-finance-chair_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"color: rgb(229, 227, 227);\">the statement<\/a><\/u><span style=\"color: rgb(229, 227, 227);\"> released by the chair of the Platform in response to the Commission\u2019s request: \u00ab\u00a0The Taxonomy can also do more to recognise efforts to improve performance and be more inclusive towards economic sectors \u2013 including those that have limited emissions, or have limited options to meet the Taxonomy criteria today.\u00a0\u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"color: rgb(229, 227, 227);\">The Commissions\u2019 decision to study such measures is an almost-direct response to the criticism expressed by opponents to the taxonomy that it would prevent several \u201cnon-green\u201d industries to find funding<\/strong><span style=\"color: rgb(229, 227, 227);\">. <\/span><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/section\/energy-environment\/opinion\/eu-taxonomy-for-sustainable-activities-a-means-to-an-end-that-risks-being-the-end-of-many-european-industries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"color: rgb(229, 227, 227);\">This criticism<\/a><\/u><span style=\"color: rgb(229, 227, 227);\"> can be summarized as followed: some activities are more difficult to \u201cgreen\u201d and decarbonize (so-called \u201chard to abate\u201d sectors), the criteria used in the taxonomy are too restrictive for most of these activities, by not including them the taxonomy blocks their transition and is detrimental to their competitivity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(229, 227, 227);\">This argument is dangerous. It originates from a misleading interpretation of what the taxonomy is and the will to shield high-carbon sectors from climate concerns.<\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(229, 227, 227);\"> <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: rgb(229, 227, 227);\">A careful examination of what the taxonomy regulation requires is sufficient to breach it:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 40px;\"><b><span style=\"color: #59bc6d;\">1. <\/span><span style=\"color: #59bc6d; font-family: var(--body_typography-font-family); font-size: var(--body_typography-font-size); font-style: var(--body_typography-font-style,normal); letter-spacing: var(--body_typography-letter-spacing);\">The EU taxonomy aims at identifying activities that contribute to the transition, not activities that could be less harmful than they are today:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 40px;\">The EU taxonomy is supposed to define under which condition an activity contributes to at least one of the key European environmental objectives without being \u201csignificantly harmful\u201d to any other. Therefore, <b>its criteria are selected to reflect when the activity is compatible with the ecological transition, and not when it is simply less harmful than it was before<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 40px;\"><b>Following the logic of taxonomy opponents, activities that will never be green but could slightly improve their carbon footprint \u2013 for example fossil fuel production \u2013 should be included<\/b>. This blurs the line between activities that should follow a transition path to become sustainable \u2013 something that is well included in the current taxonomy framework (4) \u2013 and activities that need to be phased-out or significantly scaled-down.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 40px;\"><b><span style=\"color: #59bc6d;\">2. <\/span><span style=\"color: #59bc6d; font-family: var(--body_typography-font-family); font-size: var(--body_typography-font-size); font-style: var(--body_typography-font-style,normal); letter-spacing: var(--body_typography-letter-spacing);\">As it is, the EU taxonomy only aims at improving disclosure and reporting:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 40px;\">The EU taxonomy <b>improves disclosure from non-financial companies and financial institutions that commercialize so-called \u201csustainable\u201d products and foster coherence and transparency in national and European regulations<\/b>. The taxonomy only requires financial and non-financial companies to report whether, how, and to what extent, their activities align.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 40px;\">For financial products, the taxonom<span style=\"color: rgb(229, 227, 227);\">y merely requires for products claiming to have sustainable objectives or characteristics to disclose how they align with its framework and provides ample flexibility to financial institutions. When they fail to adhere fully to the taxonomy, they must report what portion of the investments underlying the financial product do or do not comply with it. Even when such a financial product is not sustainable, it must only be accompanied by the following statement: \u2018The investments underlying this financial product do not take into account the EU criteria for environmentally sustainable economic activities.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 40px; color: rgb(229, 227, 227);\">The taxonomy could be used to guide EU and national spending \u2013 and notably part of the Covid-19 recovery packages \u2013 but this use is not mandatory and depend on the decision of Member states and EU authorities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(229, 227, 227);\">Industry and financial group often join forces to challenge the EU\u2019s sustainable finance agenda (5). They notably managed to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.responsible-investor.com\/articles\/eu-regulators-to-scale-down-anti-greenwash-disclosure-rules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u><span style=\"color: rgb(229, 227, 227);\">delay the implementation<\/span><\/u><\/a><span style=\"color: rgb(229, 227, 227);\"> of the Sustainable Finance Directive (SFRD). The EU taxonomy must not be another concession to their call to preserve a climate-destructive opacity. <\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(229, 227, 227); font-family: var(--body_typography-font-family); font-size: var(--body_typography-font-size); font-style: var(--body_typography-font-style,normal); font-weight: var(--body_typography-font-weight); letter-spacing: var(--body_typography-letter-spacing);\">Contrary to what their flawed argument implies,<\/span><b style=\"color: rgb(229, 227, 227); font-family: var(--body_typography-font-family); font-size: var(--body_typography-font-size); font-style: var(--body_typography-font-style,normal); letter-spacing: var(--body_typography-letter-spacing);\"> one of the main weaknesses of the current EU taxonomy is that it does not directly contribute to shift financial flows away from environmentally harmful sectors<\/b><span style=\"color: rgb(229, 227, 227); font-family: var(--body_typography-font-family); font-size: var(--body_typography-font-size); font-style: var(--body_typography-font-style,normal); font-weight: var(--body_typography-font-weight); letter-spacing: var(--body_typography-letter-spacing);\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(229, 227, 227);\">Instead of rushing back to find caveats to empty the taxonomy from its meaning, <\/span><span style=\"color: #59bc6d;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(229, 227, 227);\">the Commission should consider how to ensure that this framewo<\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(229, 227, 227);\">rk has the desired environmental impact (6) and start exploring how to supplement it with a \u201c<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong style=\"color: #59bc6d;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.changefinance.org\/2021\/01\/19\/press-release-52-civil-society-organisations-urge-the-eu-commission-to-establish-harmful-taxonomy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u><span style=\"color: rgb(229, 227, 227);\">significantly harmful\u201d taxonomy<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/strong><span style=\"color: rgb(229, 227, 227);\">.<\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(229, 227, 227);\"> Such a complementary taxonomy would provide a much-needed tool for financial supervisors and aut<\/span>horities (5) to build a common climate language. It is a pre-condition for a European-size scale-down of financial support to activities at odds with climate objectives and to redirect it toward sustainable activities or activities in transition.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:10px;--awb-padding-right:10px;--awb-padding-left:2px;--awb-overflow:hidden;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-border-color:#ffffff;--awb-border-top:1px;--awb-border-right:1px;--awb-border-bottom:1px;--awb-border-left:1px;--awb-border-style:solid;--awb-border-radius:10px 10px 10px 10px;--awb-margin-bottom:42px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p><b><u>Notes<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somo.nl\/the-eu-taxonomy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A factsheet<\/a><\/u> by SOMO provides details on the taxonomy and its implementation. <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.changefinance.org\/2020\/12\/02\/how-an-eu-taxonomy-could-stop-billions-of-euros-being-poured-into-fossil-fuels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A summary<\/a><\/u> by Change Finance provides a quick explanation of its potential effect.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Influence map analyses the <u><a href=\"https:\/\/influencemap.org\/report\/Sustainable-Finance-Policy-Engagement-ae2640f0ab05a86c3a53359b0c5a3057#2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lobbying<\/a><\/u> around the sustainable finance regulation. <u><a href=\"https:\/\/reclaimfinance.org\/site\/en\/2020\/08\/25\/behind-the-curtains-when-the-gas-and-nuclear-lobbies-reshape-the-eu-sustainable-taxonomy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A report<\/a><\/u> by Reclaim Finance provided key data on lobbying by the gas and nuclear sector.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The EU commission notably asks: \u201cCan the EU taxonomy framework support finance for companies undertaking activities that do not yet meet, or may be unable to meet, the substantial contribution criteria? And how can this be done?\u00a0\u00bb ; \u00ab\u00a0Can the current EU Taxonomy framework support finance for companies active in sectors that are not covered in the Taxonomy Regulation\u2019s Delegated Act?\u00a0\u00bb ; \u00ab\u00a0Can we clearly address the concerns that the taxonomy will be used to prevent financing of transitional activities, while at the same time ensuring that we are not facilitating \u201cgreenwashing?\u00a0\u00bb<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The current EU taxonomy sets the criteria that an activity must respect to be considered either contributing to mitigate climate change or to adapt to it. Activities that are not \u201csustainable\u201d can be included if they improve their environmental impact and carbon footprint to not jeopardize climate objectives. They can especially be considered as contributing to climate adaptation, the criteria and thresholds for it being significantly less demanding than the ones used for mitigation.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><u><a href=\"https:\/\/reclaimfinance.org\/site\/en\/2020\/12\/04\/in-the-shadow-who-is-opposing-the-taxonomy-for-polluting-activities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A study<\/a><\/u> by Reclaim Finance and Change Finance analyzes who support\/oppose a taxonomy for polluting activities or \u201csignificantly harmful taxonomy\u201d. It notably shows that supervisors overwhelmingly support it and identifies how financial institutions join forces with high-carbon industries to oppose it.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><u><a href=\"https:\/\/reclaimfinance.org\/site\/en\/2020\/12\/15\/eu-taxonomy-130-organisations-science-green-finance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">130 NGOs<\/a><\/u> wrote to the Commission to ask it to strengthen its draft delegated acts to avoid greenwashing and ensure the positive impact of included activities.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div><div 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