November 2022 | When Chilling Contributes To Warming | 1When Chilling Contributes to Warming How Competition Policy Acts As a Barrier to Climate Action1 November 2022 | When Chilling Contributes To Warming | 2The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) calls upon all governments and competition authorities to do everything possible within their own legal systems to reduce or eliminate the disastrous inconsistency between the imperative of fighting climate change and competition law or policy. In some cases, this may mean a change in the law; in some cases more ambitious guidelines; and in others it means changes in the burden of proof and/or presumptions in favour of genuine efforts to fight climate change and meet the climate change goals to which governments have committed. Key messages:• Businesses can, need and want to work together to help fight climate change.• Current competition policies are chilling this.• Competition authorities and law makers can, and must, do more to reduce this chilling effect: practical guidance is needed.• This can (largely) be done within current legal frameworks for competition law: where it cannot things need to change.• Businesses, in turn, should take real-life examples of the chilling effect to the competition authorities.1 This white paper has been produced by the ICC Task Force on Competition and Sustainability co-chaired by Paola Pugliese and Simon Holmes and with the invaluable assistance of Ian Giles. Other members of the Task Force include: Georgina Beasley, Johann Brück, Elżbieta Buczkowska, Carlos Edwin Camarillo, Daniel Castelo, Arjun Chandran, Xiaofeng Cheng, Paolo Chiricozzi, Polina Chtchelok, Jorge Alexander Cortés, Pablo Cortinez, Zhisong Deng, Maur...
