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Austria vows legal action as EU angers activists with ‘green’ label for nuclear energy

Austria is fiercely opposed to a "green" label for nuclear power, championed by France. © Jean-Philippe Ksiasek, AFP

Investments in some gas and nuclear power plants will be labelled as sustainable under rules proposed by the European Commission on Wednesday, a plan that has split countries and investors, and which Austria has vowed to challenge in court.

Brussels has taken more than a year to decide if gas and nuclear energy should count as green investments in the EU's taxonomy, an investor rulebook designed to help raise massive amounts of private capital to meet EU climate change targets.

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