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

Telles.eu

I will be doing the post on vehicles sometime later this week Contract type 15 - food products, catering and automated vending For food procurement, the text of the Resolution and contract type 15 include a reference to the need to have 'short supply chains'. So what is a 'short supply chain'?

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Using AI for green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

The same study found that about 40% of all emissions related to government procurement could be mitigated for less than US$15 per ton of CO 2 emissions. If we want to tackle climate change, and if we want to have greener, cleaner, and more resilient supply chains, governments will need to buy things in a fundamentally different way.

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Public procurement (entry for an Encyclopaedia)

How to Crack a Nut

More recently, and in line with developments in other jurisdictions, procurement has been increasingly singled out as a tool to promote environmental and sustainability goals, as well as social goals, or as a tool to foster innovation. Halonen, Kirsi-Maria, ‘Is public procurement fit for reaching sustainability goals?