The country’s surprise Brexit vote in June’s referendum raised questions over the impact on the UK’s clean energy and climate policies, which for decades have been closely bound up with the wider objectives of Brussels — and which currently, for example, mandated a 15% renewable energy share by 2020.
Much will depend on whether the country ends up with a Norwegian-style relationship with the bloc as a member of the European Economic Area, which would mean little change, or makes a more decisive break that frees Britain from most of its obligations under EU regulations and targets.
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