This webinar presents the new ‘Office Indoor Lighting LCC-Tool’ which helps to evaluate the life-cycle costing of indoor lighting projects and to make the most cost-effective decision. You want to learn more about the tool and how to use it? Take the opportunity and sign up for one of the free webinars:

• 1 June 2021 in English
• 3 June 2021 in Dutch

You can register here. Registration is possible up to 2 days before the event. The link to participate will be send shortly before the webinar.

You can't participate but you’re truly interested? After the webinars you’ll find the LCC-tool and more information here.

Solar energy is one of the most promising forms of renewable energy sources contributing to CO2 reduction targets. There has been an ever-growing deployment of solar photovoltaic panels. However, as the PV market grows, so will its demand for raw materials, as well as its waste output and related pollution. Lifetime extension of products, components and materials, realised via reuse and repair is one of the cornerstones of a circular economy – a concept with vast potential for pollution mitigation.

How to reduce the environmental impact of solar PV modules and how to develop a circular value chain in the solar PV sector? The solution lies in a better collaboration of all actors in the supply chain.

CIRCUSOL organized a session to openly discuss environmental and economic challenges regarding circularity in the solar PV sector. The speakers will shed light on good practices which can inspire also other sectors. 

The event is organised under the umbrella of the EU Green Week 2021.

You can register here.

On June 14th 2021, 4-5 pm CET, a group of countries and regions is launching the Circular and Fair ICT Pact (CFIT). Participants of this new international partnership will use their collective procurement power to accelerate the ICT sector towards becoming more circular and fair. Actions will be taken in good dialogue with the ICT industry and other relevant actors. The pact is an initiative under the UN One Planet Network SPP Programme.

You can register here and more information can be found on the website or mail to cfit@rws.nl

procuRE brings together six procurers from six different countries to jointly tackle the common challenge of achieving 100% Renewable Energy Supply in existing public buildings. The procurers are willing to invest 7.68 million euro in research and development to address this challenge in their regions, to be prepared in coming years to tackle their combined stock of over 21,000 buildings.

procuRE is carrying out an Open Market Consultation (OMC) in the form of a series of events which aim to:

• Inform potential suppliers (industry) about the procuRE pre-commercial procurement opportunities
• Explain in detail the pre-commercial procurement process
• Open a dialogue with potential suppliers about the scope of procurement envisaged in the project
• Facilitate matchmaking among potential suppliers in need of support in the building of consortia

City representatives are welcome to join the event and also to become preferred partners within the project.

Preliminary Agenda:
• Welcome & Introduction
• procuRE Aim & Scope
• Procurement of Innovation and Tender Process
• Q&A on project and process
• Information on Local Building
• Q&A on local site
• Next steps

Registration is required. Participation is free of charge:

This event is preliminarily linked to World Sustainable Energy Days – WSED, which will take place from 21 – 25 June 2021.

Cities4Forests is hosting a participatory session for cities to explore the Sustainable Wood for Cities platform.

This online event will give an introduction to the platform for industry, city leaders and others on pathways that support their expertise. The core of the session will be an open discussion and Q&A with city representatives focused on exchanging knowledge on sustainable wood procurement for city staff and industry leaders. The goal is that all participants come away with further insights and a new capacity to engage in climate smart urbanization and forest conservation.

An expert panel will present eight unique pathways for sourcing sustainable wood followed by a roundtable conversation on the key challenges and questions surrounding city procurement.

June 28, 2021: 14:00-15:30 BST Register for the Zoom event here.

The event will take place during the London Climate Action Week (LCAW) which is an annual event that brings together the city’s world-leading array of climate professionals and communities, harnessing the power of London for global climate action.

Agenda
14:00-14:10: Welcome by Cities4Forests & Nicky Gavron
14:10-14:20: What is sustainable wood and how can cities support it?
14:20-15:00: Expert panel discussion of the Sustainable Sourcing “Pathways”
15:00-15:25: Response from public and private sector representatives
15:25-15:30: Wrap up and plans for COP26 Sustainable Timber District

Are you:

• A public procurer looking to integrate Nature Based Solutions (NBS) in your tenders?; or
• A Nature Based Enterprise (NBE)/ a company active in the NBS sector?

On 30 June (12:00-13:00 CET), the Connecting Nature Enterprise Summit will be bringing together public buyers and companies working in the NBS sector to share best practice on the public procurement of NBS.

Including NBS in public tenders or responding to public tenders for NBS can be challenging for both public authorities and suppliers. In this capacity building session, we will be sharing some practical tools to help procurers and Nature Based Enterprise work together more effectively to deliver NBS projects in cities.

Elsa Durieux, Senior Officer at ICLEI Europe, will be joined by Lene Stolpe Meyer from the City of Fredrksberg and Hans Mueller from Helix Pflanzen GmbH to share insights and experience in response to questions commonly asked by public authorities and companies involved in public tenders for NBS. The session will be set up as an interactive FAQ so that the content shared can be tailored to the audience's questions.

Register here for the session, and contact Elsa Durieux (elsa.durieux@iclei.org) for any questions!