This report wants to form the basis for work to help us all make better decisions with respect to our diets and our purchases – from nutritional and
environmental perspectives.

Este manual guiará a los agentes de compras gubernamentales también en el diseño de políticas de compras y programas de compras preferenciales que incluyan a PYMEs, grupos minoritarios y empresas de propiedad de mujeres, entre otros. Integrará criterios ambientales y sociales en todo el ciclo de la contratación pública, desde la calificación de proveedores a las especificaciones técnicas, criterios de adjudicación y las condiciones del contrato.

This handbook will guide government procurers on the design of procurement policies and preferential purchasing programs that will crowd-in SMEs,minority suppliers and women-owned enterprises. It will integrate environmental and social criteria across the public procurement cycle, from supplier qualification to technical specifications, award criteria and contract conditions.

This paper explores the potential for governments to use public procurement policy to reduce deforestation, including drawing lessons from experience hitherto with timber procurement policies. Based on those lessons, it considers the various means of using procurement policy to discriminate between products associated with deforestation and products certified with no such association.

This paper aims to provide background for this debate, including an overview of the patterns of production and consumption of, and trade in, the three main deforestation-related commodities – palm oil, soy and beef. The paper begins with an analysis of the global impact of these commodities on forests, and concludes with a discussion of likely future trends.

The Sustainable Procurement Guide for Wood and Paper-based Products identifies and synthesizes 10 key issues that underpin sustainable sourcing and provides resources to tackle these challenges.

A report by the Flanders Government on their SPP activities for the period 1/01/2015 – 31/12/2015. This includes statistics on the amount of SPP being carried out, expenditure levels and product areas covered.

The purpose of this report is to highlight instances of forward thinking governments who are taking the lead in developing integrated guidance; to examine what these guidelines say; identify common messages; and ascertain whether and how their approaches could be replicated elsewhere.

These Guidelines deal with the voluntary inclusion of environmental criteria within the procurement processes of the Expo Milano 2015 Participants, as a key contribution to their commitment toward both the sustainability of the Event and the development and sharing of the Theme “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life”.