Barbara Mariani

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As a woman in software engineering, I always felt it was part of my responsibility to build an environment where other women could feel safe and valued. From July 2022 to October 2023 I had the opportunity to lead the engineering women's community inside the company I used to work. Idealized by me and a co-worker, the idea started as a monthly meeting with all software engineers identified as women inside the company.

There is no environmental, climate or economic reason to include nuclear and fossil gas in the EU investment taxonomy. At the turn of the year a European Commission proposal was leaked which would label two polluting energy sources, nuclear and fossil gas, as ‘environmentally sustainable’ in the European Union’s investments ‘taxonomy’.