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PUBLIC PROCUREMENT NEWS

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5 December 2019

Our demand for electric cars and smartphones is drying up the most arid place in the world

The recent investigation ‘Devices draining the desert’ by Danwatch found that lithium extraction for the batteries in our computers, telephones and electric cars is using many of the scarc...

3 December 2019

Breaking Ground – Big Buyers Procurement Training leverages public purchasing for clean construction and EVs

European cities are ready to take their public procurement to the next level. At an event in Oslo this week, frontrunner cities got together to make their procurement power count in the fields of circ...

2 December 2019

Procurement to localise the SDGs – New ICLEI guidance for towns and cities with 15 pathways

ICLEI, alongside the City of Aalborg and the Basque Country, recently launched a new publication, which presents towns and cities with 15 pathways they can use to localise the Sustainable Development ...

26 November 2019

The latest on life-cycle costing for procurement

On behalf of the European Commission, ICLEI Europe and Ecoinstitut will host a webinar focussed on the 5 product-specific life cycle costing (LCC) tools that the European Commission has produced to fa...

25 November 2019

China, ICLEI, the Netherlands and UN Environment Programme join hands to lead the globe towards sustainable procurement

The UN-led initiative “One Planet Network” has a new leadership for its Sustainable Procurement Programme. Four organisations are going to jointly manage the programme to accelerate the up...

22 November 2019

New GPP Criteria - Public Space Maintenance

The EU GPP criteria for public space maintenance have been finalised.

14 November 2019

European Big Buyers advance procurement of zero emission vehicles

The Big Buyers is a European Commission Initiative (BBI) for promoting collaboration between big public buyers in implementing strategic public procurement. As part of the platform, three working grou...

12 November 2019

MUPASS 2019 - our three take-aways

The MUPASS Dialogue Forum 2019 took place in Bonn, Germany. The three-day Forum enabled a fruitful exchange on the topic of sustainable public procurement (SPP) with many interactive formats for senio...

7 November 2019

Local governments for climate conference calls on procurment to combat climate change

There is great potential for local governments to use public procurement to strengthen their work on climate change and sustainability. Green and socially responsible public procurement are key tools ...

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