Sustainability and Competition Law: Friends or Foes?
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Organised by the Oxford Centre for Competition Law and Policy in Collaboration with the American Bar Association.
Faced with the serious threat of climate change, companies are increasingly considering a wide range of strategies and collaborations aimed at promoting more sustainable business. While these strategies promote environmental initiatives, they also raise concerns as to their potential adverse effects on competition dynamics. This conference will explore the policy and enforcement challenges associated with the application of competition law to sustainability initiatives. Are the competition law concerns legitimate? What balance should governments strike between protecting competition and promoting initiatives to save the planet? How can we refine our policies to enable sustainability initiatives while preventing businesses from using them as a vehicle to dampen competition?
13h30
Registration and refreshments
14.00
Welcome Remarks: Ariel Ezrachi, Oxford CCLP & Fiona Schaeffer, Chair of the ABA Antitrust Law Section
14.05
Should Sustainability Count in Competition Law Assessments: The Case For and Against
Moderator: Ariel Ezrachi, Oxford CCLP
Simon Holmes, UK Competition Appeal Tribunal
Maarten Pieter Schinkel, University of Amsterdam
14.35
Fireside Chat:
Moderator: Fiona Schaeffer, Chair of the ABA Antitrust Law Section
Ann Pope, Senior Director for Antitrust, UK Competition and Markets Authority
15.00
Coffee break
15h20
Implementation Challenges: Balancing Sustainability and Competitive Effects in Practice
Moderator: Oke Odudu, Cambridge University
Peter Tufano, Harvard Business School
Ninette Dodoo, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Maurits Dolmans, Cleary Gottlieb
Vanessa Turner, BEUC
Ruben Maximiano, OECD
Julian Nowag, Oxford CCLP and Lund University
Open discussion
16h50
Final reflections
Grant Bermann, Milbank LLP, Washington, DC, Anne Catherine Faye, Analysis Group, Boston, MA, Nicole Kar, Linklaters LLP, London
17:00-18:00
Reception