Implementing the European Green Deal through the EU Taxonomy Regulation

The overall aim of the project is to examine, from an international legal perspective, the way in which economic activities are identified as ‘sustainable’ for the implementation of the European Green Deal. With a recent EU Taxonomy Regulation, the EU has established that all EU-funded economic activities will undergo a mandatory sustainability screening to ensure that they ‘do no significant harm’ to EU environmental objectives and comply with ‘minimum social and governance safeguards’. Meanwhile there has been controversy within EU member states around the potential scope and reach of the sustainability screening and how exactly it will be implemented.