Climate Change Mitigation

Climate change mitigation is the first environmental objective in Regulation (EU) 2020/852. Under Article 10, an activity may contribute substantially by avoiding or reducing greenhouse gas emissions or increasing removals, including through renewable energy, energy efficiency, clean or climate-neutral mobility, carbon sinks, and environmentally safe carbon capture and storage.

Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2139, as amended, sets the technical screening criteria for listed activities. Criteria and thresholds are activity-specific: a value that applies to one electricity, transport, manufacturing, or building activity cannot be treated as an objective-wide rule. The legal inventory also changes when delegated acts are amended, so a fixed activity count quickly becomes misleading.

Taxonomy alignment is determined for a specific activity and also requires the applicable DNSH criteria and minimum safeguards. This site's examples are a curated guide subset; consult the official EU Taxonomy Compass and the current consolidated legal acts for the complete inventory and binding wording.