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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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Sustainable and Circular Procurement Practices in Public Sector Procurement

Tracker Intelligence

Procurement promotes the use of digital tools, resources and applications to drive sustainable innovation across multiple sectors and determine the systems needed to achieve a more environmentally conscious transition. In addition to this, procurement sustainability ensures effective delivery of services within desired timeframes.

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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?