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Sustainability of health care products influences purchasers

Environmental sustainability and other green attributes play a large part when hospitals in Germany, Italy, Brazil and the United States make purchasing decisions on healthcare products, new research ...

Binding measures needed to achieve green economy

The opinion requested by the Danish presidency of the EU has said that to shift Europe to a green economy based on sustainable production and consumption, voluntary measures need to be supplemented by...

Indian procurement bill facilitates green procurement

The Government of India has drafted a Public Procurement Bill that integrates socio-economic policies into procurement policy, facilitating green procurement and energy efficiency preferences. The bil...

Sustainable procurement criteria and labels developed in Thailand

The Thai government has enacted a programme to increase the sustainability of its public procurement through developing sustainable procurement criteria and reliable labels. The Thai example is also i...

London 2012 achieves world first with dual certification

With just over three months until the London 2012 Olympic Games kick off, the entire Olympic Park development has achieved dual Project Certification from PEFC and the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)...

Cape Town develops green procurement guidance

The City of Cape Town (South Africa) recently developed an Information and Guideline document on the Implementation of Green Procurement in the city. The document describes the desired state of practi...

Study notes wide-scale uptake of green public procurement in EU

A recent study produced by the Centre for European Policy Studies and the College of Europe indicates that green public procurement is being practiced on a large scale within the EU. 55 percent of the...

Electric mobility takes off in Estonia and Bulgaria

Estonia launched an Electric Mobility Programme in 2011, which sought to introduce electric cars using funds from the Kyoto protocol system. The Ministry of Social Affairs bought 507 electric cars as ...

SMEs, resource efficiency and green markets survey exposes growth potential

A recent Eurobarometer survey has identified areas of untapped potential for SMEs, revealing that less than a quarter take advantage of the single market for green products or service. Bureaucracy is ...

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