Consultation outcome

Environmental sustainability advice to government: call for inputs

This consultation has concluded

Detail of outcome

14 March 2022: Following the BEIS Secretary of State’s request, the CMA has published its advice on how the competition and consumer regimes could better support the UK’s net zero and environmental sustainability goals (including climate adaptation).

Feedback received

Advertising Standards Authority

Advice Direct Scotland

Ashurst

Baker McKenzie

Barratt Developments

British Retail Consortium

Civil Aviation Authority

Consumer Council Northern Ireland

Dentons UK and Middle East

Doctor Anca Chirita

Doctor Kalpana Tyagi

Energy Saving Trust

Eversheds Sutherland

Fairtrade Foundation

Freshfields

Good Energy

Gowling WLG

Heathrow Airport

Joe's Blooms

Lawyers for Net Zero

Linklaters and Oxera

Lloyd's

Mark Bethell

Maurits Dolmans

Mineral Products Association

Natural Resources Wales

Net-Zero Insurers Alliance

Not 1 Bean

OVO

Reed Smith

The Restart Project

Simon Holmes

Slaughter and May

Supply Chain In-Sites

Sustainability First

Traidcraft Exchange

Unilever UK

Which

Detail of feedback received

18 March 2022: We have received the above responses to our consultation.


Original consultation

Summary

The CMA has launched a call for inputs (CFI) to help inform advice the CMA will provide to government on how competition and consumer regimes could better support the UK’s net zero and environmental sustainability goals.

This consultation ran from
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Consultation description

The call for inputs will run until 10 November 2021.

On 19 July, the BEIS Secretary of State (SoS) commissioned the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to provide advice on how the competition and consumer regimes could better support the UK’s net zero and environmental sustainability goals (including climate adaptation).

The letter asks the CMA to produce advice for the Secretary of State in early 2022 (PDF, 108KB).

The information stakeholders provide in response to this CFI will help inform our advice to government and how the competition and consumer enforcement regimes can better support the government’s Net Zero and sustainability goals.

In accordance with our policy of openness and transparency, we will publish non-confidential versions of responses on our webpages. If your response contains any information that you regard as sensitive and that you would not wish to be published, please provide at the same time a non-confidential version for publication on our webpages which omits that material and which explains why you regard it as sensitive.

The responses to the present CFI may also be shared with BEIS in order to facilitate consideration of the CMA’s advice.

When handling personal data (like your contact details), we comply with data protection law, as set out in the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 and other law designed to protect sensitive information.

For more information about the CMA’s statutory functions, how the CMA processes personal data and your rights relating to that personal data (including your right to complain), please visit the CMA’s Personal Information Charter.

If you have any queries please contact us at sustainabilityadvice@cma.gov.uk.

Documents

Published 29 September 2021
Last updated 21 March 2022 + show all updates
  1. Third party responses to consultation published.

  2. Recommendation to the Secretary of State page link published to the consultation page.

  3. First published.