Agents for change: How public procurers can influence labour conditions´in global supply chains. Case studies from Brazil, Pakistan and Thailand
This report focuses on the social aspects of supply chains and examines how contracting authorities in the EU can use social criteria to improve labour conditions in countries where poor labour standards are rife
This Five Year Overview Report of the carbonn® Climate Registry (cCR) provides a synopsis of reporting trends by local and subnational governments around the world that have been reporting their climate commitments, performance (greenhouse gas inventories) and actions between November 2010 and November 2015.
Dieses Hintergrundpapier informiert über die wichtigsten rechtlichen Regelungen zur umweltfreundlichen öffentlichen Beschaffung und zeigt, wie diese sinnvoll organisiert werden kann.
The impact of dietary choices on health, greenhouse gas emissions and land use
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.
Reducing Deforestation in Agricultural Commodity Supply Chains - Using Public Procurement Policy
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.
Agricultural Commodity Supply Chains - Trade, Consumption and Deforestation
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.
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.
English
Belgium
Flanders Government, Environment Nature and Energy Department
Plates, pyramids, planet: developments in national healthy & sustainable dietary guidelines
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.
