Taxonomy: What are the new sustainable standards?

The EU's Taxonomy Regulation is an EU-wide taxonomy, or classification system, of specific economic activities - such as generation of energy from renewable sources or low-carbon emitting manufacturing - that the EU defines as environmentally sustainable. Separate technical screening criteria, currently available for activities addressing climate change, define the technical threshold - such as the level of GHG emissions from a renewable energy project - that must be met for an activity to be considered to 'contribute' to a given environmental objective, as well as the 'do no significant...