Twenty major trade unions from across Europe representing employees in the energy sector have renewed their call for European politicians to include nuclear energy in the bloc’s sustainable finance taxonomy.

The unions, from Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Hungary, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia, said in a joint letter to members of the European parliament that they should vote in favour of – or at least not oppose – the complementary delegated act providing for the inclusion of nuclear and gas in the taxonomy.

In February the European commission officially put forward regulations to label nuclear energy as sustainable under the taxonomy, ending months of uncertainty and wrangling over whether the industry would have a significant place in the bloc’s transition to zero carbon.