Sustainable Public Procurement Initiatives Across Continents
Governments around the world are recognising their role in shaping sustainable economies through their procurement practices. With a global government procurement market valued at $13tn many nations are implementing sustainable public procurement initiatives. We take a look at some here:
1. Europe: Sustainable Procurement Practices
Europe has been at the forefront of sustainable public procurement (SPP) initiatives, championing ...
Measuring Carbon Reduction
What Is Carbon Reduction in Procurement About?
Governments and companies are setting deadlines for achieving zero emissions. Public procurement can be used as a lever to drive change by promoting lower carbon alternatives into government supply chains.
This worked example below shows how using good procurement data and combining it with emissions data, it is possible to help ...
Net Zero Needs Further Action, Says NAO
A new National Audit Office (NAO) report highlights that further action is needed by the UK Government to strengthen governance and delivery mechanisms, if it is to secure value for money for its £4.2bn of innovation spending in pursuit of net zero.
The NAO’s latest study investigates whether the government is set up to deliver value for ...
Green Public Procurement: New Report
At Spend Network, we are always on the look out for governments, think tanks, research bodies, and other organisations who are working with public procurement to increase transparency, and improve outcomes of for communities through public spend.
The Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) have presented their latest research on Green Public Procurement (GPP) in the EU. Researchers reviewed ...
Measuring Carbon Reduction
What Is Carbon Reduction in Procurement About?
Governments and companies are setting deadlines for achieving zero emissions. Public procurement can be used as a lever to drive change by promoting lower carbon alternatives into government supply chains.
This worked example below shows how using good procurement data and combining it with emissions data, it is possible to help ...
Options For Data Use
There are different ways in which open data can be used to drive and measure progress against sustainability goals.
So as part of the toolkit put together by Open Contracting Partnership, Public, and ourselves, we've identified ten different ways in which you can gather and use data to measure and monitor sustainability in procurement.
Option 1: Assign tags ...
Cutting Carbon Is A Procurement Issue
Just a few months ago, we shared an article on findings by the Boston Consulting Group and the World Economic Forum that showed procurement is responsible for 15% of all greenhouse gas emissions, globally. Their study reported that governments spend $11trillion(USD) annually-or 15% of global GDP, on procurement every year. Our own prior study, tracked the value of global ...
US Green Procurement Drive.
While on his campaign trail, Joe Biden guaranteed to use the federal government’s $500 billion-per-year buying power to “drive towards 100 percent tidy power as well as zero-emissions cars.”
Fast forward to earlier this month and President Biden signed an executive order that demonstrates how the United States will leverage its scale and procurement power to lead ...
Contracting Emissions
We’ve built an analysis of carbon emissions by contract.
Our team has shown some real dedication to get this far with the work.
There’s still a long way to go.
We’ve got a first draft analysis and projections for carbon emissions based on the UK’s contract data.
We’re sharing an early dashboard to get feedback- you'll find it here www.spendnetwork.com/carbon
Get ...