Friday, 9 April 2021, 5:57 am For the last year, Central and Eastern European governments have been pressuring the EU to include less restrictive criteria for biomass energy production and to recognise natural gas as a transition fuel towards climate neutrality. They may have realised their ambitions with the current draft of the EU Sustainable Taxonomy proposal. Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) will be one of the most negatively affected regions if fossil fuels are included in the EU Sustainable Taxonomy. Such a development would open the way for environmentally harmful projects that would have a destructive impact not just on regional ecosystems,