Written Evidence to the CMA on competition for environmental sustainability

Chirita, Anca Daniela

Written Evidence to the CMA on competition for environmental sustainability

Chirita, Anca Daniela

Authors

Dr Anca Chirita a.d.chirita@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor

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