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The Global Merger Control Issue of Environment has become a Global Merger Control Problem

The Global Merger Control Issue of Environment has become a Global Merger Control Problem

By Caroline Boisvert, December 17, 2021 at 4:37 PM EST — Many competition authorities around the globe are now looking into environmental issues in merger review and conducting investigations.

The Federal Trade Commission, for example, has begun to include questions about sustainability in its merger investigations under the Biden Administration.

The European Commission began investigating possible predatory pricing by Greece’s largest electricity supplier in March. According to a news release, the conduct “might have distorted competition and slowed investment into the generation greener energy.”[1]

Recently, the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority sought input from stakeholders on how the U.K.’s competition regime could better support sustainability goals.[2]In Austria, the amendments to 2021…

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