Brexenergy and Multilateral Agreements: how the EU can negotiate COP22 without UK
Increasing interconnectivity with Continental Europe will necessarily require co-operation between UK and EU Internal Energy Market in any Brexit scenario, also at international-global level. If the UK were permitted to participate in the Energy Union following Brexit, it would need to negotiate an appropriate partnership with EU and adopt - and comply with - the relevant European internal and external law.
The first question to be addressed is: can the UK continue to participate in the liberalisation of the European Energy Market (EEM), can the EEM continue the liberalisation process without the UK? The second question is: can the EU optimally negotiate the multilateral and global agreements on energy/climate change?
