The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is supporting a SAICM project on global best practices for emerging chemical policy issues of concern. The project overarchingly aims to achieve the sound management of chemicals throughout their lifecycle by 2020 and sound management of chemicals and waste beyond 2020.
UNEP and ICLEI Europe are working jointly on supporting implementation of component 2 of the project, and in particular the activities in the electronics sector. These activities aim to help governments and value chain actors in the electronics sector track and manage chemicals of concern (CoC) in their products. This work is focussed on developing global sustainable public procurement guidance enabling purchasers to ultimately reduce the use of chemicals of concern (CoC) in the electronics sector and supporting the training for adaptation of global tools and guidance to the local context of public purchasers in Colombia.

EC GPP Case Study - Ludwigsburg wanted to award a new two-year framework agreement for office stationary and office material, which would decrease the overall price while also allowing for green criteria to be included in the call for tender.

EC GPP Case Study - Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland - As part of the urban transport project, MZK published its most recent call for tenders in June 2019 for 6 electric low- floor city buses with a dedicated traction battery charging system for the city. The procuring authority chose an open procedure to make sure that all interested suppliers could deliver bids.

This toolkit is designed to be a practical tool with a range good practice examples: talking about human rights in the context of public procurement, how to link the policy context, requirements and contract management.

Report on Daejeon's approach to GPP including target setting, connecting procurement to the city's environmental ordinance and an annual training session.

Report on GPP approach in Gyeonggi-do Province ranging from training sessions to pilot procurement and monitoring.

Report on Busan's latest targets and achievements as leading city on green public procurement.

EC GPP Case Study - Helsinki Service Centre aimed at improving their operations of food transportation to become more customer-friendly and reliable, save costs, significantly reduce the environmental impact of their operations. Three separate calls for tender were published that jointly cover all food transportation and logistics for Helsinki Service Centre.

The guidelines intend to provide a common understanding of the set of measures and environmental criteria that can be considered in developing the most appropriate legal and operational framework to address single-use of plastic in public procurement in the signatory countries of the Barcelona Convention.