THE European Commission is to proceed with controversial proposals for new rules to class investments in some gas and nuclear power plants as sustainable, which environmental campaigners denounced as a "mockery" of the 27-nation bloc's claims to climate leadership. The plans, confirmed this week, have come under fire from environmental groups, including Greenpeace, and some governments, with European Union countries and investors split over whether the energy should count as green. "We should accelerate phase-out of more harmful energy sources, move to energy mix mostly based on renewables," EC Vice President Valdis Dom-brovskis said on Twitter.
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