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GPP2020 final conference to look at implementing low-carbon tenders in practice

Ideas and achievements will be shared at the final conference of the GPP2020 project, set to take place on 19 April 2016 in Brussels (Belgium). Procurers that have carried out low-carbon public purcha...

25 February 2016

Report finds Chinese factories unfairly using student labour to make IT products

Chinese students as young as 15 are being forced to work 12 hour days assembling computer monitors under the guise of mandatory internships, a report conducted by People & Planet and DanWatch has fou...

23 February 2016

Cape Town purchases electric buses for public transport

Cape Town has become the first South African municipality to procure a fleet of electric buses for use in its public transport fleet. As part of the tender, suppliers were expected to not only supply ...

19 February 2016

European Commission passes new thresholds for public procurement

The European Commission has amended the thresholds for when EU procurement law applies for the next two years. If an organisation spends less than the threshold, then EU law does not apply. If they sp...

17 February 2016

GPP2020 webinar to discuss procurement of low-carbon lighting

A webinar looking at experiences with procuring low-carbon street lighting will be held by the GPP2020 project on 23 February 2016. The event is free of charge and all stakeholders working in the fiel...

11 February 2016

Medical waste disposal tender sees Emilia-Romagna achieve green outcome

In December 2013 Intercent-ER, the central purchasing body for the Italian Region of Emilia-Romagna, issued a joint procurement initiative for the sustainable management of hospital waste, which saw t...

9 February 2016

JRC study envisages possible future scenarios on the path to 2035

A new study by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) looks at the long term industry trends for sustainable resource use, and the consequences these trends will have on emission redu...

4 February 2016

GPP 2020 tutorial videos outline how to calculate energy and CO2 savings

A series of videos have been produced to guide users through the GPP 2020 carbon and energy calculators, a collection of excel tools which help procurers and decision-makers to measure the energy and ...

3 February 2016

Guidance on purchasing energy efficient kitchen equipment available in Finnish

New guidance on procuring commercial kitchen equipment has been published by Motiva, a partner in the EU-funded INNOCAT project. The professional kitchen guide provides information on choosing energy ...

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