Green Public Procurement as a tool to promote the Circular Economy
Public procurement can embrace the principles of the circular economy, in particular: contribute to the closure of cycles (both energy and materials), maximize the value of materials, reduce or eliminate waste production. This guide aims to support the transition towards circular procurement.
The report offers a vision for a healthy food system fit for the 21st century and beyond, underpinned by the circular economy principles of designing out waste and pollution, keeping products and materials in use, and regenerating natural systems.
Aligning policy and legal frameworks for supporting smallholder farming through public food procurement: the case of home-grown school feeding programmes
The paper aims to help build a dialogue, bringing to the food procurement and rural development literature an analysis of the various legal mechanisms that can be used to align the regulatory framework in pursuit of broader development goals by means of public procurement in the form of home-grown school feeding programmes.
National Action Plan for 2019 - 2025. The second GPP National Action Plan outlines Malta's strategy and targets for GPP in the coming period until 2025. it includes a review of the first National Action Plan and proposes arange of new approaches to GPP including circular procurement.
Malta
Food and catering, ICT (information and communication techn.), Transport and vehicles, Energy, Cleaning, Timber and forestry , Buildings and construction, Lighting, Office stationery, Infrastructure, Green spaces, Furniture, Waste
This guide aims to help public and private clients and contractors to enhance high quality re-use, recycling of construction material and this way avoid waste to landfill. It introduces circular economy concepts for the construction industry and how procurement can support them. For this, it clearly defines relevant procurement requirements and to expect the supply chain to respond.
Reducing Ozone Depletion through GPP - Shenzhen, China
Through the successful application of Green Public Procurement (GPP), Shenzhen has greatly reduced the use of products that contain Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS). Since Shenzhen began implementing GPP in 2006, the city has eliminated 150.9 tons of ODS, as well as greenhouse gases equivalent to 1,360,863 tons of CO2.
City of Gothenburg: Follow-up is key to sustainable procurement success
As a part of their work with sustainability, the City of Gothenburg strives for a responsible approach to conflict minerals such as tantalum, tin, tungsten and gold. These minerals, which are used in IT products, are extracted in conflict-affected regions under circumstances where human rights are routinely abused.
