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Environmentally sustainable taxonomy eligibility criteria
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The steel industry has been invited to participate in the Technical Expert Group (TEG) on sustainable finance, and has provided comments on the second round consultation. As yet these comments have not been considered in the latest draft, and so this paper sets out in further detail the concerns of the steel industry and workable proposals to improve the taxonomy.
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