The document is aimed at any small, medium or large
company, wholesalers and retailers that supply public buyers with products of
wood (furniture, office paper, etc.) or that are suppliers of construction companies that work for the public sector. This guide defines the different ways in which Companies in the timber sector can demonstrate compliance with the requirements legal and sustainability issues that may be included in the bids published by the European public authorities.

The purpose of this new guide is to help buyers build their own way of identifying and capturing this strength of innovation. Built as a toolbox, it wants to be a reservoir of ideas, processes, and think tanks to enrich the practices of the purchasing departments.

This report details numerous instances of governments, the private sector, donors and international organizations adopting sustainability in their supply chains.

Oslo’s Climate Budget is a means of showing where emissions must be reduced and who is responsible for doing so. The Climate Budget provides an overview of the measures that the City Government is planning to implement within the period of its current economic plan in order to fulfil Oslo’s climate goals. Measures include objectives related to procurement and establishment of climate-smart markets.

This document presents a new strategy for Oslo Municipality's procurement of goods, services, buildings and construction. The municipality's procurement strategy is to provide a common overall basis for thinking and behaviour by municipal agencies, so that procurement becomes an effective instrument for providing residents, businesses and industry with quality solutions and services in line with the needs of today and tomorrow.

The Government’s aspiration is that by 2050 almost every car and van in the UK fleet will be an ULEV, with the UK automotive industry at the forefront of their design, development and manufacture. This strategy sets out why this transformational change will happen, the opportunities it presents for the UK, and the challenges that must be overcome to exploit those opportunities. It articulates Government’s clear and strong commitment to this agenda.

This report is one of a series presenting recommendations to the EU for an Action Plan to halt deforestation and respect rights, looking at EU aid, climate, consumption, financial, illegal logging, renewable energy and trade policies

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.

The public sector in Wales spends over £70m a year on food, £20m of which is spent on the procurement of fresh food. The Welsh Government has a duty to ensure that sustainable development is central to all of its undertakings.

This paper examines the development by the Welsh Government of guidance for public sector organisations in working to embed sustainable practices, including reducing food waste and procuring locally, into their procurement practice.