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PUBLIC PROCUREMENT NEWS

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10 October 2013

Public buildings in Brandenburg to only use electricity from renewable sources

From 1 January 2014 the state of Brandenburg (Germany) will be supplying all of its public buildings with electricity generated from 100 percent renewable energy. Prior to this, the state had been usi...

UN initiatives aim to scale-up sustainable procurement

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in conjunction with the UN Global Compact Team, is taking steps to both green its own procurement and encourage corporations to green their procurement...

26 September 2013

Ghent commits to eco-friendly cleaning products

The city of Ghent (Belgium), in partnership with the leading manufacturer of green cleaning products Ecover, has committed to using products that carry the Cradle to Cradle label. The label is the sym...

25 September 2013

Enfield Council opts for cleanliness without cruelty

Enfield Council’s (UK) decision to exclusively stock cleaning products free from animal testing started with a letter from a young girl. Concerned about the cruel treatment of animals, the young Enf...

17 September 2013

Assessing risk and spend in supply chains

ECO-Buy, a not-for-profit organisation in Australia, has written a short guide to risk analysis in supply chains. Reacting against procurement decisions which can have environmentally and socially har...

13 September 2013

GPP 2020 to use low-carbon procurement to reach EU sustainability goals

GPP 2020 is a new EU-funded project that aims to cement green public procurement (GPP) across member states to make the EU’s goals of a 20 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, a 20 percent...

11 September 2013

Defra publishes guidance on green IT procurement

The UK’s Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) is setting out best practice guidelines for public sector organisations to procure energy efficient datacentre and cloud hosting s...

4 September 2013

France develops new guidelines for procurement of innovation

The French government has issued new guidelines on the procurement of innovation for those working in the French public sector. It highlights the importance of purchasing innovation as a strategy to a...

2 September 2013

New legal timber regulations explained

ClientEarth, an environmental organisation, has published a document entitled ‘Implications of the new EU Timber Regulation for public procurement’. Public authorities spend hundreds of billions o...

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