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Chancellor Olaf Scholz has criticised the decision to include nuclear energy in the EU taxonomy for sustainable investments, but emphasised that Germany would need natural gas for a transitional period to get to climate neutrality by 2045. 鈥淚n Germany we are in complete agreement that nuclear energy is not green,鈥� said Scholz . The chancellor said that the government鈥檚 promise to make Germany climate neutral by 2045 had always included the statement that the country would need gas for the transition, when exiting coal and nuclear energy. Scholz remembered how his government had rejected the inclusion of nuclear in the taxonomy earlier this year. 鈥淚 always thought it was wrong,鈥� said Scholz, and indicated that the government had also influenced the European Commission鈥檚 proposal. 鈥淚t was at the turn of the year that the European Commission could have decided something without us being able to stop it. Then we made sure that it still fit us to some extent.鈥�

The EU taxonomy 鈥� a system that defines companies鈥� activities as sustainable along several key objectives, including climate change mitigation 鈥� is a tool to steer billions of euros of private investments to help decarbonise the bloc鈥檚 economies. Germany鈥檚 was largely symbolic because there had not been a聽 majority vote amongst member states to prevent it. The European Commission鈥檚 proposal to include both nuclear and gas 鈥� subject to wide-spread criticism 鈥� intended to placate both France and Germany; previously, German politicians for the inclusion of gas. The European Parliament this week , and member states like they would challenge it in court.

Student intergenerational justice activist Rifka Lambrecht confronted Scholz with criticism on German plans to support gas exploration in countries like Senegal. Scholz replied that if the country wanted to get out of Russian gas, supplies had to come from elsewhere. In addition, he said it would be 鈥渋diosyncratic鈥� to tell countries in Africa how they should organise their way to climate neutrality. With Germany betting on gas for the transition, 鈥渋t is very difficult to tell countries 鈥� which now get their energy from coal 鈥� not to do it with gas in the meantime,鈥� said Scholz.