Sustainability and Antitrust: Conflict, Trade-Off or Good Friends?

How can competition law contribute to the promotion of sustainability? Should sustainability be an explicit goal for competition law? Are antitrust authorities equipped for the assessment of environmental effects that do not affect consumers in the market? And, if not, could they still have a significant role, without distorting their mission and their independence? This brief paper tries to provide some tentative answers to these challenging questions.