Written Evidence to the CMA on competition for environmental sustainability

Chirita, Anca Daniela

Abstract

In 2021, both the UK CMA and the EU DG COMP articulated a set of public policy objectives to advance sustainability and contribute to the green economy. The international scope of sustainability is wider than that of the green economy to include competition, inequality, and poverty. Nevertheless, the recent pronouncements signal a welcome paradigm shift from a sole focus on consumer welfare as the norm for material prosperity through lower prices and quality towards greater environmental wellbeing of consumers in the public interest. The latter captures an economically sustainable dimension of environmental consumer protection from the huge industrial damages of waste and pollution.

Citation

Chirita, A. D. (2022). Written Evidence to the CMA on competition for environmental sustainability. [No known commissioning body]

• Report Type: Project Report
• Acceptance Date: Nov 10, 2021
• Online Publication Date: Mar 18, 2022
• Publication Date: 2022
• Deposit Date: Nov 11, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 31, 2022
• Pages: 1-15
• Series Title: Competition and Markets Authority, Environmental sustainability and the competition and consumer law regimes: Advice to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
• Publisher URL: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1061297/Dr_Anca_Chirita.pdf
• Additional Information: Publisher: Competition and Markets Authority (UK CMA); Type: monograph; Subtype: project_report