SUSTAINABILITY AGREEMENTS IN THE EU: NEW PATHS TO COMPETITION LAW COMPLIANCESustainability Agreements • November 29th, 2023
Sustainability Agreements: opportunities within competition lawSustainability Agreements • October 1st, 2020
Sustainability Agreements in Light of Argentina’s Competition LawSustainability Agreements • December 23rd, 2023
Argentina is a member of the United Nations, and has committed itself to achieving the 17 economic, social and environmental goals set by the UN’s Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development.1 These goals include actions to mitigate the effect of climate change and global warming (goal #13); the creation of sustainable cities with lower environmental impact (goal #11); the creation of renewable and sustainable energy sources (goal #7); and the creation of sustainable industry and the promotion of innovation (goal #9), among others.
Sustainability (Green) Agreements Can Lead to Higher Sustainability*Sustainability Agreements • March 6th, 2024
When firms have intrinsic preferences for higher sustainability, they will individ- ually choose a higher level than without such preferences. Still, allowing them to agree on a joint standard will further increase sustainability in this case, but not without such preferences. This has a simple intuition: Given their intrinsic prefer- ences, even without an agreement firms increase sustainability already to the point where this compromises their competitiveness. When they now also internalize the effect on their rival under a joint standard, they are willing to decrease competitive- ness even further, thereby increasing sustainability. This effect is absent in Schinkel and Treuren (2024).
