Brexit and FTA signing process

It is well known that the UK has left the EU and is conducting FTA negotiations with the EU, which suppose to expire at the end of December 2020. Aside from the details of the FTA, what is of great interest in the negotiation process is that the UK and the EU would not give each other on the handling for the fishery right claimed by the UK.
It means, they are claiming that many cod or mackerel, which are familiar for “fish and chips”, live in the waters near Britain, so if the EU carry to manage it even after the UK left, there would be competing with France. Then it might give a big blow to a British eating habit.
After all, Is that the battle between Britain and France during the British Empire now replaced fishing rights conflict?  However, although what I stated above seems to be about withdrawal from the EU, if you think about it carefully, Britain’s departure from the EU is the declaration of independence from the common destiny that is their familiarity society. 
In other words, I think that it is appearing to be a sign of reviewing the dignity of the kingdom. After all, it may be the consensus of the people, which is “regain the dignity of the British Empire”. In a sense, we could call it the national CSR (Country Social Responsibility). Hence, It looks like a raising battle from the entire country.

Brexit and green recovery

If you review the process of Brexit, the fact that 206 major UK companies and institutions signed a joint statement calling for green recovery from the UK government in June 2020 means that the public and private sectors have joined forces to create the crack to leave the EU. That is because the signature includes many of the UK’s leading retail, manufacturing, consumer goods, financial institutions and UK corporations of foreign capital.
In the Nikkei morning edition dated today (October 18, 2020), there was an article entitled “The charts explains that Decarburization, direct connection to corporate value, emission reduction is gathering money”.
　I could not know deep inside of it, but it was the content that corporate profits fluctuate greatly depending on whether or not the company declares decarburization.
For this article, regardless of the intention of this article, I agree with the idea that the judgment is rising which they don’t invest to those companies unless they are willing to process or eliminate CO2 emitted from corporate activities (zero-emission) actively.
However, it can be said that Japanese companies have grown under the blessing of the Japanese government no matter what you say something. In other words, it is not because of the consensus of the company; it is because it is an approval from the support of the government.
In such a situation, even if someone shouted that CO2 reduction should be included in the corporate CSR, It might be like that “even the whistle is blown, no one dance.”
However, I think it seems that it was the withdrawal of the EU from the UK that that is changed the view of CSR from the corporate end to one with the state. It can be said that the UK has successfully transferred “green recovery” from corporate CSR to national CSR.
And I would say that is because there is the background to this was the reliable technology for CO2 reduction. The CO2 removal / disposal technology developed by us could be one of them. By all means, I shall hope that Japanese companies will not be satisfied with raising their CO2 emission reductions to CSR, and will take on the challenge of technological development that can contribute to national CSR.