Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

South Korea has been a pioneer of green public procurement (GPP) since 2005 , when the Environment Ministry enacted legislation mandating government agencies to buy “green products” whenever possible. Since 2014, the proportion has remained stable, as the latest KIP analysis shows.

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Green Public Procurement Public Procurement Procurement IT 78

How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Pre- or post-reading: Claire Methven O’Brien and Roberto Caranta, ‘ Due Diligence in EU Institutions' Own-Account Procurement: Rules and Practices ’ (2024) European Parliament CONT Committee Study PE 738.335, Annex II. Trygve Harlem Losnedahl, ‘The General Principle of Competition is Dead’ (2023) 2 PPLR 85-98 (£/€).

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The government wanted to shift that to 100% by 2023. Approach : Lithuania launched an ambitious public procurement reform in 2021 to reduce the country’s carbon footprint and ensure every public procurement decision considers its environmental impact. You can see how green different procurement procedures are too.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 30, 2024

Why we prioritized furniture procurement We wanted to test our approach on one product category that governments buy regularly and that, in the EU, have clearly defined green requirements designed to reduce the environmental impact of a purchase. At present, the low adoption of green criteria is the main barrier.

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Tracker Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Regulations and Frameworks Driving Adoption One of the first steps to achieving long-term sustainability and circular procurement goals lies within the development of a regulatory framework that seeks to align with domestic and international initiatives.

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

This is expected to address the issue of de facto openness beyond existing (international) legal requirements, and therefore galvanise the ability of the Commission to control access to ‘the EU procurement market’ and thus bolster its ability to use procurement reciprocity as a tool for trade liberalisation more effectively.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JANUARY 31, 2025

CivicDataLab analyzed Assams public procurement data to estimate the share of green public procurement (GPP). GPP refers to procurement that incorporates climate and environmental goals. CivicDataLab developed a methodology to identify and measure green public procurement using tender titles.

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