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A Common Concern: The Climate Justice Podcast – Projecting Inequality? (Part 2)
Projecting Inequality? (Part 2): integrated assessment models, from techno-speculation to socio-economic stasis? In Part 2 of this episode Kate Cook, Tejal Kantikar and Linda Schneider look at normative choices and assumptions underpinning integrated assessment models in the IPCC’s mitigation report and examine how the future AR7 report could be aligned with equity, a legal requirement, […]
AI Is Not a Market and Treating It Like One Loses Cases
“A handful of firms control AI.” The sentence recurs in complaints, in submissions, and in conference keynotes: a handful of firms control AI. It is not false. The same few names really do recur, up and down the technology, with a frequency that should trouble anyone who cares about competitive markets. But the sentence states […]
The New Article 102 Guidelines and Sustainability
The European Commission’s Guidelines on the application of Article 102 Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) to abusive exclusionary conduct, adopted on 3 September 2026, do not create a freestanding “sustainability defence” to abuse of dominance. What they do, for the first time, is expressly identify sustainability benefits as capable of constituting […]
Abuse of Dominance Guidelines: What Has Changed?
The Commission’s 2026 Article 102 Guidelines carry forward a two-thirds-old draft into final form largely intact, but the movement between the two is where the interesting detail sits. The category of conduct with no economic rationale beyond restricting competition “conduct that is by its very nature harmful to competition” survives essentially untouched and remains close […]
EU Dominance Guidelines: Implications for UK Competition Actions
On 3 September 2026, the European Commission adopted new Guidelines on abusive exclusionary conduct under Article 102 Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). They are Commission soft law: they do not bind the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT), the High Court or the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), and because they post-date IP […]