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THE BLUE WALL: COMPETITION AND SUSTAINABILITY IN BERLIN

By  |  April 10, 2023

By: Ruprecht Podzsun (D’KART)

Are companies allowed to collude with other companies to jointly reduce CO2 emissions? Hardly any other question has been discussed more often at antitrust conferences across the country in recent years. This is also due to the fact that the first green-led Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection in Germany has named sustainability as a key topic in its Competition Law Agenda 2025. Researchers at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf have now presented a comprehensive report for the Ministry: “Competition and Sustainability in Germany and the EU”. It can be accessed via this link. Justus Haucap and Rupprecht Podszun were in charge and presented the report in Berlin this week. Podszun reports here on how the excursion to the Berlin stage went...

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