Competition Policy and Environmental Sustainability

The book examines the relationship between competition policy and environmental sustainability within the framework of European Union law. It takes the fight against climate change as an urgent need and analyses to what extent competition law instruments can contribute to sustainability without undermining their basic principles. After introducing the subject and the analytical framework, it addresses business cooperation agreements, abuse of dominance, merger control and state aid. Each chapter assesses the current situation and recent developments, identifies existing shortcomings and sets out concrete proposals for improvement and for their practical implementation, in order to provide useful legal criteria for understanding this complex intersection between sustainability and competition.