Institutional procurement

What is sustainable procurement? Sustainable procurement is the process in which organizations buy supplies or services by taking into account: The best value for money considerations such as, price, quality, availability, functionality, etc.; Environmental aspects ("green procurement": the effects on the environment that the product and/or service has over its whole lifecycle, from cradle to the crave); The entire Life Cycle of products; Social aspects: effects on issues such as poverty eradication, international equity in the distribution of resources, labor conditions, human rights. (Source: UNEP)

Documents

The Canny Buyer Handbook - A guide to using green purchasing in your business

The Canny Buyer Initiative, 2004

Report and recommendations of the Sustainable Procurement Group

Government of UK, 2003

Sustainable procurement: making it happen

Waste and Resources Action Programme, 2003

The Environmental performance of Public Procurement: Issues of policy coherence

OECD, 2003

Environmentally Preferred Purchasing: Moving beyond "Buy Recycled"

Center for a New American Dream, 2002

Earth friendly green procurement gains ground

http://www.newdream.org/procure/Government%20Procurement%20-%20October%202003.pdf

Center for a New American Dream, 2003

Towards a Sustainable Procurement Strategy

A Background Paper for the Government of Australia, 2002

Report of the expert meeting on sustainable public procurement,

GRIP, Copenhagen, 2002

Green procurement of buildings: estimation of environmental impact and life-cycle cost

http://epubl.luth.se/1402-1544/2002/09/index-en.html

Lulea University of Technology, 2002

Environmentally Preferred Purchasing: Moving beyond "Buy Recycled"

Center for a New American Dream, 2002

 

Guidelines on greening public procurement by using the European Eco Label Criteria

http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/ecolabel/pdf/news/guide_eco_crit_pub_proc.pdf

European Commission, 2001

State and Local Government Pioneers: How State and Local Governments are Implementing Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Practices

EPA, 2000

Information database of the UN CSD on Public Procurement

ICLEI publications and online information on sustainable procurement 

Green Procurement in Trade policy

http://www.cec.org/files/PDF/ECONOMY/green-procurement-in-trade%20Policy_en.pdf

N. American Commission for Environmental Cooperation

 

Green procurement in Indonesia

http://www.cec.org/files/PDF/ECONOMY/green-procurement-in-trade%20Policy_en.pdf

 

Green procurement policy examples

http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/BuyRecycled/Policies/

California Integrated Waste Management Board

 

A global guide to green procurement

http://www.ewindows.eu.org/ManagementConcepts/Greenp/F1056727684

EnviroWindows

 

Environment Canada's Greener Procurement resources

http://www.ec.gc.ca/eog-oeg/greener_procurement/Greener_Procurement.htm

 

Pollution Prevention Regional Information Center resources on Green Procurement

http://www.p2ric.org/TopicHubs/toc.cfm?hub=13&subsec=7&nav=7

UNEP's resources on sustainable procurement

http://www.uneptie.org/pc/sustain/design/green-proc.htm

 

Procura +

http://www.iclei-europe.org/index.php?id=519

ICLEI, Europe