Sustainable Procurement Platform

Sustainable Procurement Platform

Sustainable Procurement Platform

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Learn more about how cities are using public procurement to further the implementation of the circular economy across Europe

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ICLEI Europe is seeking to hire a Senior Expert Sustainable and Innovation Procurement. The successful candidate will work at the forefront of European public procurement policy development

EC launches new platform for public procurers

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Plastic - friend or foe in the fight against food waste

It’s the oft-recited estimate: one third of all food is wasted across the world. Not to mention the farmers’ work, fertilisers, pesticides and fuel used to grow it, the energy to transport...

French cuisine in 2022: 50% of food in canteens must be sustainable

“Let food be thy medicine, and medicine thy food” – this well-known quote by Hippocrates seems to become reality in France. Earlier this year, the French Ministry of Agriculture and ...

Boring no more! Procurement key topic at URBAN FUTURE Conference

The URBAN FUTURE global conference is dedicated exclusively to CityChangers – decision makers who actively, passionately and effectively make cities more sustainable. In 2019 the event wil...

Changing the (product-service) system

“The future is not in low cost production. In making things with finite components. The future is in providing services that then materialise in products, instead of the other way round. Product...

BuyZET project: final conference on zero emission vehicle procurement

The BuyZET project is glad to announce that the BuyZET final event will take place on 14 May 2019 in Brussels (Belgium). The draft agenda is available here.

Market Engagement: City of Haarlem pioneers socially responsible ICT hardware

Public procurers meet suppliers and resellers in a dedicated space to discuss an upcoming tender that is ambitious with regards to sustainability criteria. This simple idea of market engagement takes ...

Stopping Single Use Plastic: Interview with Zero Waste Europe

Plastic production is rising. With single use bans and consumer boycotts simultaneously spreading, have increased awareness and action made a dent in the industry’s activities? How can we furthe...

Celebrating Earth Day - what can procurement do?

22nd April - Earth Day. First celebrated in 1970, the day is devoted to call for environmental protection, to reflect on the dependence of our social and economical systems to nature and to re-t...

UN calls for urgent rethink as resource use skyrockets

Rapid growth in extraction of materials is the chief culprit in climate change and biodiversity loss – a challenge that will only worsen unless the world urgently undertakes a systemic reform of...

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