Global Antitrust and Sustainability Law, Economics, Enforcement

Sustainability has received increasing attention in recent years, particularly surrounding concerns of poverty in the Global South, the climate emergency, the loss of biodiversity, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Competition and public authorities are more frequently encountering sustainability questions, while states are more generally called upon to foster sustainability by the UN Resolution 70/1. Against this backdrop, and drawing on cases and materials from different jurisdictions, Global Antitrust and Sustainability: Law, Economics, Enforcement explores the interaction between antitrust law and sustainability from the perspectives of law, economics, and the enforcement of such rules. The book introduces the concept of sustainability and its environmental, social, and economic pillars and then gathers key insights from economic theory and economic studies on the relationship between competition and sustainability. The subsequent chapters examine legal provisions, cases, and other materials from around the globe to analyse how competition agencies have responded to the sustainability challenge, and the effectiveness of their action. Insightful and pioneering, Global Antitrust and Sustainability makes timely recommendations to ensure that competition policy contributes to a more sustainable world and will be an invaluable resource for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners. This is an open-access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license.

Chapter 1 - Introduction: scope and limits of sustainability and antitrust law
Chapter 2 - The economics of competition and sustainability: good and bad competition
Chapter 3 - Competition authorities as guardians of sustainability
Chapter 4 - Competition authorities as public enablers of private sustainability efforts
Chapter 5 - Process matters
Chapter 6 - Conclusion

Julian Nowag is an Associate Professor in Competition Law at Lund University, Sweden. Professor Nowag earned a Master's degree (MSt) and a doctorate (DPhil) from the University of Oxford. He also completed an LLM in European Legal Studies at Durham University and undergraduate law studies in Germany and Austria. He is an associate at the Oxford Centre for Competition Law and Policy where he is on the editorial board of The Journal for Antitrust Enforcement. He works on the intersection of competition law with other areas such as sustainability and AI.