The Australian Sustainable Finance Institute has rejected requests to incorporate natural gas in the local sustainable finance taxonomy. Several other activities and sectors have been included in the newly opened second round of consultation on the taxonomy but gas is excluded on the basis that it should only have a small usage rate in the transition energy mix – albeit a critical one as a firming fuel.
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