Webinar discusses limits for environmental sustainability agreements

The Center for Studies on Infrastructure and Environmental Solutions (FGV CEISA) of the São Paulo School of Business Administration (FGV EAESP) holds a free online debate with the theme: neither cartel nor greenwashing: the limits for environmental sustainability agreements involving competitors, due to the risk of violating antitrust laws. Open to the public, the event will be held on August 30, at 2 pm, on the FGV YouTube channel.

Agreements between competitors may be necessary to achieve ambitious environmental sustainability goals, which are desirable in a context of severe climate crisis. In this scenario, authorities in England, Japan and Holland, as well as the European Commission, recently issued specific guidelines related to environmental sustainability/climate change agreements, trying to reduce the impacts that the fear of applying antitrust laws generates in companies that want to cooperate with competitors to reduce, for example, the pollution generated by their production or logistics processes.

While these guidelines are relevant so that the deterrent effect of antitrust law does not prevent the adoption of desirable practices, it is expected that antitrust authorities are not lenient with greenwashing and continue to curb cartels and other anticompetitive conduct.

The purpose of the panel is to encourage debate between those who believe that there is room for the adoption of practical measures by antitrust authorities that help companies meet their sustainability goals and those who understand that such a discussion can reduce legal certainty managed and must be avoided in the scope of the application of antitrust legislation.              

Speakers will be Victor Fernandes, CADE counselor; Leonardo Rocha e Silva, partner at Pinheiro Neto Advogados and Paula Mello, partner at Pinheiro Neto Advogados. The event will be moderated by Gesner Oliveira, coordinator of the Center for Infrastructure Studies & Environmental Solutions at FGV EAESP.

Those interested in participating must register  at this link .