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.

The BIOMODEL4REGIONS project aims to support the establishment of the innovative governance models at local/regional level to achieve better-informed decision-making processes, social engagement and innovation to support and strengthen EU and international science-policy interfaces to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

The methodology is based on the set-up of a governance structure among bioeconomy clusters that will leverage on previous successful projects, initiatives and best practices to capitalise on work performed through several years of research and studies in the field of bioeconomy. These results will be demonstrated within the project to support 6 pilot regions chosen in clusters’ network.

A collection of circular procurement best practices, aiming to help public procurers to better analyse the needs of the organisation and challenge the market to a more circular supply of products and services.

This report aims to explore and explain Performance / Output Based Specifications (POBS) for Performance Based Contracting, reporting successful practices and outlining benefits and potential challenges.

The report explains the concept of Performance Based Contracting, looks into how this has been developed throughout time and reports a few successful best practices. Among these, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital Trust procuring an energy performance contract; the Danish Municipality of Hedensted procuring heating and ventilation solutions with the aim to reduce both CO2 emissions and resource consumption.

The report also aim to explore the key steps necessary in order to execute a POBS based tender, including a 12 step checklist to follow and potential challenges for when using a POBS approach.

The report explains to public buyers what market engagement is, why they should engage with the market, and what the best steps to do so are.

This report gives an overview of the meaning of Circular Procurement and explores concepts and ideas related to the topic, including references to circular procurement examples.

The report includes reference to three priority focuses for circular procurement: the focus on services instead of products, a focus on the product's design, use phase and end of life and a focus on market dialogue. It includes a section on the benefits of applying circular procurement and some examples of circular procurement criteria for tendering.

The report finally reports a few examples of circular procurement models, presenting circular solutions and dealing with different products, from costruction and furniture to textiles and technologies.

This report introduces the reader to the concept of life cycle costing (LCC) and its current status and latest developments.

The report includes clarifications on the concept of life cycle costing and analysis and total cost of ownership. In specific, it refers to the new EU public procurement Directives, which clearly includes and defines the use of LCC within the public procurement process.

Finally, the report identifies existing LCC tools and best practices with the scope of inviting procurement related professionals to the use of LCC.

GPP 2020 has demonstrated the huge energy and CO2 savings which public authorities in Europe can make by procuring innovative products, servicesand works. This report is a summary of the results.

Over the course of three years, more than 100 low-carbon tenders were implemented by over 40 public authorities in eight countries, resulting in calculated savings of over 900,000tonnes CO2e and 140,000 toe (tonnes of oil equivalent). GPP 2020 also put in place structures to support public authorities looking to implement low-carbon tenders in future. These include dedicated national helpdesks, replicable case studies and an international training programme

The guide is designed to assist public authorities and public transport operators in purchasing clean and energy efficient vehicles in full compliance with European legislation - in particular the Clean Vehicles Directive (CVD). It is primarily targeted at procurers and fleet managers, but will also be of relevance to policy makers and others involved in the transport sector.

The guide presents how environmental criteria can be introduced into the different stages of procurement procedures, together with information on life cycle costing (LCO) and other relevant topics. The information presented is complemented by various real-life examples from European public authorities.