EU Climate Laws Helped Lead to Brexit, Environment Lobbyist Says
- European 2008 rules were far too top-down, Worthington says
- Environmental Defense Fund official speaks at conference
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The European Union rules on 2020 climate and energy goals helped feed the negative sentiment that led to a decision by British voters to leave the bloc, according to environmental lobbyist Bryony Worthington.
“The European 2008 package, without realizing that, contributed to and fostered some of the conditions that led to Brexit,” Worthington, the executive director of the Environmental Defense Fund, said during the Bloomberg New Energy Finance summit in London on Monday. “It was too far top-down in its view and too inflexible in its approach to climate change.”