Procurement of transport services for Stockholm school children with special needs, including strict environmental criteria relating to the vehicles used.

FRESH was a European co-operation project aimed at demonstrating the potential of energy performance contracting (EPC) for social housing operators to achieve low energy refurbishment. A series of demonstration and dissemination activities were organised.

This document reaffirms the Scottish Government’s commitment to promoting the sustainable economic growth of the food and drink industry. But it also articulates a new aspiration, that Scotland should become a Good Food Nation, a Land of Food and Drink not only in what we as a nation produce but also in what we buy, serve and eat.

This report compares battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) with similar gasoline vehicles by examining their global warming emissions over their “life cycles”—from the raw materials to make the car through manufacturing, driving, and disposal or recycling.

Principles and criteria for sustainable forest management (SFM); chain of custody and logo use (CoC); development, application and management of certification systems (DAM); and the procedure on endorsement of certification systems by a meta-system (PEM)

This report, and the project that led to it, seeks to address some of these challenges by researching existing methods and tools, then developing guidance for organizations wishing to measure and communicate the benefits being generated by their SPP programmes. The work that is presented in this report represents the results of an ongoing exploration of the topic conducted in 2014 and 2015 with a variety of participants, and lays the ground for future work on the topic.

This report examines how public procurement in Northern Ireland can better encourage innovation – the creation of new processes, products, ideas and services.

This document is the result of the discussions held during the Uraía Workshop which took place in Oslo on June 29 and 30, 2015. It is a working paper made in collaboration with the participants who attended the workshop including representatives of local governments, city networks, service and technology providers, civil society, international organizations and research institutes from all the five continents. It gathers general recommendations on city-business cooperation about SMART projects and it is based on the participants’ experiences.