Meeting of the national GPP experts, Stockholm, 27 November 2009
GPP national experts met in Stockholm to share information and experience about Life Cycle Costing (LCC) and its application in GPP tendering procedures
- Introduction, Pavel Misiga, European Commission
- Use of LCC in Construction - Nora Kirby Popescu, Davis Langdon LLP
- LCC, all the way and always! - Sören Björnbom, Sweden
- LCC – a modern procurement tool - Annie Stålberg, Swedish Environmental Management Council
- Lifetime monetisation in the Clean Vehicle Directive - Franz X. Soeldner, European Commission, DG TREN
- ISO 15656 part 5 and the UK supplement for life cycle costing in construction procurement - Andy Green, Faithful & Gould
- Life Cycle Costing: A Question of Value -Barbara Morton & Oshani Perera, IISD
The 3rd International Forum for Green Purchasing CompraVerde-BuyGreen
8-10 October 2009 Cremona, Italy
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"Green public procurement - Lead the change" National Conference
14 October 2009, Bratislava, Slovak Republik
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Procura+ Seminar 2009: Tackling climate change through sustainable
procurement.
22-23 October 2009, Zürich
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The 3rd International Conference on Green Purchasing
21-23 October 2009, Suwon, Korea
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EcoProcura 2009, Reykjavik
Over 220 representatives from local governments, national governments and other public sector bodies met in Reykjavik, 25 - 27 March 2009, to discuss how sustainable public purchasing practices can make a substantial contribution to climate change mitigation and adaptation"
Five workshops on GPP
The ICLEI European Secretariat organised, on behalf of the European Commission, five workshops on Green Public Procurement. The workshops took place between October 2006 and February 2007 in Lisbon, Dublin, Bologna, Avilés and Athens. Detailed information and background material can be found on the workshop website
ITC ILO/UNEP Workshop on Sustainable
Procurement: Economic, Environmental and Social Considerations
in Public Procurement
The International Training Centre of the ILO (ITC ILO), in
collaboration with the UN Environmental Programme (UNEP), has
launched this one week workshop, whose
first edition will take place at the ITC ILO Campus in Turin
between 26 and 30 March 2007. The workshop will be then delivered
twice annually on a regular basis. Its main objective is to
contribute to improved capacity in the conceptualization and
implementation of environmental and social considerations in
procurement, in line with internationally accepted principles
and practices.
Please contact proc-promo@itcilo.org for more information on the workshop contents, target audience
and delivery schedule.
Sevilla 2007 - Fifth European Conference on Sustainable Cities & Towns, 21-24/03/2007
The Fifth European Conference on Sustainable Cities & Towns will bring together more than 1000 delegates to advance the Aalborg Process. One of the conference workshops is dedicated to sustainable procurement.
www.sevilla2007.org
GPP Roundtable in Hamar
On 8-9 November 2006, the Norwegian city of Hamar hosted the International Roundtable on Developing Public Procurement Policies for Sustainable Development and Innovation. The meeting contributed to the elaboration and implementation of policies for sustainable development that also promote innovation.
Roundtable website
Back to back with the roundtable was the third meeting of the Marrakech Task Force on Sustainable Public Procurement. This informal group of countries and organisations works together on specific issues of Sustainable Consumption and Production.
Cremona Fair: Green Purchasing International Forum Compraverde-BuyGreen, 9-10 October 2008
The Forum has the following objectives:
- promoting a widespread culture of Green Purchasing, through the most recent updates of policies and orientations in this field and through highly qualified training on the Green Purchasing
procedures to public and private (profit and non-profit) operators;
- “showcasing” and exchanging good practices for public administrations, entreprises and non-profit organizations;
- fostering confrontations and relations between public institutions, enterprises and organized civil society, through the development of new models and projects and the development of innovative networks
and synergies.
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RESPIRO Conference on Socially Responsible
Procurement, 3-4 December 2007, Lille, France
- Social Responsibility: What does this mean for public purchasers?
- How can we encourage Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
along supply chains?
- What about fair and safe working conditions?
- Public authorities and businesses leading by example!
Official
website
GPP Roundtable in Hamar, 8-9/11/2006
Developing GPP policies that also promote innovation. International roundtable in Hamar, Norway.
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Buying Green! The power of the public purse for reducing environmental impacts of public purchases and stimulating eco-innovative supplies, Brussels, 29-30 September 2006
EcoProcura 2006, Barcelona, 20-22 September 2006
The EcoProcura 2006 Conference promoted exchange amongst local government purchasers in particular, but also purchasers from regional and national governments and from the private sector. EcoProcura® Barcelona fostered a dialogue amongst suppliers, policy and decision-makers, multipliers, and offered the latest information on practical solutions for implementing sustainable procurement.
It included the presentation of the Local Authority EMAS and Procurement (LEAP) Project Results as well as the 2nd International Green Purchasing Conference.
Green Public Procurement – Turning policy into practice!, Graz/Austria, 3-4 April 2006
This follow-up conference of the UK presidency event (October 2005) focussed on demonstrating good practices and presenting a wide range of concrete examples of GPP, which should allow all purchasers in Europe to turn policy into practice. (Conference website)
Presentation of the intermediary report of a study on the state of play on Green public procurement in the EU - UK presidency event, London, 27-28 October 2005
Launch Event - Handbook on green public procurement, Brussels, 29 October 2004
The launch event gave public purchasers, suppliers and other stakeholders the possibility to formulate questions regarding GPP or discuss relevant opportunities. In addition, a demonstration of best practices by purchasing authorities which have already gone "green" took place, aiming at convincing participants of the many benefits of green public procurement.
1st International Conference on Green Purchasing, Sendai/Japan, 5-8 October 2004
The Sendai conference had three major aims:
- To share the latest domestic and international information on green purchasing and discuss its future direction
- To announce the Green Purchasing Sendai Declaration to the world, which serves as a guideline for promoting green purchasing
- To establish a network that promotes global collaboration on efforts towards green purchasing
Further information can be found on the conference
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