As we mainstream the sustainable green procurement agenda, we call upon:
The National and Local Government to:
- commit to sustainable procurement and lead by example in their own procurement
actions and when committing financial resources to third parties.
- ensure public procurement rules allow and require public authorities to include
social, environmental, and ethical criteria in public procurement processes
- encourage all public authorities, to implement sustainable procurement
- ensure all public procurers demand from their suppliers, and the goods and services
they provide, compliance with social and environmental legislation and international
agreements
- set performance indicators and targets to be met at the local and national level
- provide greater resources for training procurement staff, the promotion of good
practice, collecting evidence to demonstrate benefits, disseminating information and
providing practical guidance to public procurers
- develop and use of organizational /national /international tools with, to the extent
possible, harmonized environmental and social standards for products and services
- adopt policies committing to the inclusion of environmental and social concerns in
heir procurement activities
- take the lead in helping and encouraging other authorities to implement sustainable
procurement effectively
- use best value (i.e. giving consideration to sustainability) approach when making
purchasing decisions
- constructively engage with the private sector to encourage innovative developments
and increase awareness of the need for increasing sustainability in production
- develop a strategy, allocate resources and undertake training and awareness raising for
procurement staff to ensure that these commitments are implemented
- promote the use of already existing tools for sustainable procurement
- actively share positive and negative experiences with sustainable procurement to
other public authorities, for example through the joining of exchange networks and
national/international campaigns