GRASPINNO provides innovative green procurement solutions for energy savings/efficient refurbishment of public buildings, focusing on smart cities and communities.

BuyZET is a partnership of cities aiming to achieve zero emission urban delivery of goods and services by developing innovative procurement plans.

SPP Regions focused on building and strengthening regional sustainable procurement networks around Copenhagen (Denmark), Rotterdam - The Hague (Netherlands), Turin (Italy), Bristol (UK), Barcelona (Spain), West France and Gabrovo (Bulgaria).

GrowSmarter brings together cities and industry to integrate and demonstrate ‘12 smart city solutions’ in energy, infrastructure and transport, to provide other cities with valuable insights on how they work in practice and opportunities for replication. The cities of Stockholm, Cologne and Barcelona are implementing solutions ranging from smart home energy management systems, to micro-freight distribution; from automated waste collection, to vehicle to grid charging.

INNOPATHS is a four year EU funded research project that aims to work with key economic and societal actors to generate new, state-of-the-art low-carbon pathways for the European Union.

The project focuses on improving and promoting schemes that protect quality logos (names of quality agricultural products and foodstuffs) and that take into account environmental, social and innovation-based criteria when awarding the public sector contracts to procurers and suppliers.

The SYMBI project contributes to improving the implementation of regional development policies and programmes related to the promotion and dissemination of Industrial Symbiosis and Circular Economy

SUITS aims to enhance the capacity of the local authorities and of other stakeholders in terms of innovative procurement in compliance with the latest European legislation on public procurement and on public passenger transport services.

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