Brexit, Clini: “EU loses strength even on environmental policies”

The exit of Britain from the European Union will also have consequences for environmental policies. In this new scenario, “there is no doubt that the role of EU trade globally is slowed down.” The italian former Minister of Environment, Corrado Clini, explaines to Adnkronos news agency
the consequences of the referendum on Brexit on the Cop21 agreement.

In particular, the burden sharing, assigning to each country a national target to reduce polluting emissions, “Britain will have an autonomous position, no longer tied to the international trading environment.” This, according Clini, “will strengthen the position of the United States, because the United Kingdom, to date, played a bridging role” in environmental negotiations. Now, however, from outside, “it will be easier to exercise a different role than in Europe” that, therefore, “also loses strength on the floor of environmental policies.”