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Time to progress to Sustainable Public Procurement?

A briefing produced by Client Earth argues that an opportunity is being missed by limiting the remit of strategic procurement to the environmental dimensions of sustainability. Both green public procu...

Rwandan school launches procurement programme to achieve sustainable development

The management of the Rwandan School of Finance and Banking (SFB) in collaboration with the International Training Centre (ITC) of the International Labour Organisation launched a Procurement Manageme...

EcoProcura 2012 registration and call for contributions now open

The online registration and call for contributions period are now open for EcoProcura 2012: New opportunities to deliver sustainable procurement and innovation. The event will take place in Malmö (Sw...

Reference to green public procurement in Commission’s 7EAP toned down

The European Commission should propose an environmental inspection law, increase its waste ambitions and drive sustainable land use through targets and impact assessments, according to the European Pa...

Can procurement managers look beyond ISO14001?

Chris Large of the Guardian Newspaper explores the question of how do you tell if a business is environmentally responsible? For many procurement teams this boils down to one question – does the bu...

Public procurement to benefit youth in Kenya

The Kenyan Government has committed to ensuring that 10 percent of all Government procurement be allocated to the youth to further empower them. President Mwai Kibaki also directed the Attorney Genera...

28 February 2012

US Presidential memorandum calls for increased federal procurement of bio-based products

On 21 February US President Barack Obama signed a memorandum entitled 'Driving Innovation and Creating Jobs in Rural America through Biobased and Sustainable Product Procurement.' The BioPreferred Pro...

24 February 2012

Western Cape Province sees sustainable procurement as key to becoming green economic hub

The Western Cape Province (South Africa) has announced its plans to become the “green economic hub” of South Africa by encouraging renewable energy. The comments were made Premier of the province,...

21 February 2012

Greater London Authority releases procurement report

The Greater London Authority (GLA) has released a report entitled, Delivering Responsible Procurement, which documents the impressive progress made by the Authority in the past three and a half years....

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