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Portugal's plan for mandatory green public procurement (III - food procurement)

Telles.eu

This will have a detrimental effect on innovation in food production. Take strawberries for example, their growth season has expanded significantly over the last 15 or 20 years due to new agricultural techniques (yes, poly-tunnels and use of energy).

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How Lithuania fast-tracked green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

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. The reformers share their top tips on implementing green procurement here. . Can everything be green?

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Sustainable and Circular Procurement Practices in Public Sector Procurement

Tracker Intelligence

Public procurement encourages collaboration between government and private enterprises, in turn allowing public authorities to achieve sustainable and circular practices. The post Sustainable and Circular Procurement Practices in Public Sector Procurement appeared first on Tracker.

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Public procurement (entry for an Encyclopaedia)

How to Crack a Nut

More recently, as EU procurement policy increasingly seeks to promote cross-border collaboration, procurement is also becoming a driver (or an irritant) for the transnational regulation of administrative processes and a living lab for experimentation and legal innovation.

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Assam’s green budgeting boosts green public procurement trends

Open Contracting Partnership

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.