sustainable procurement News

Sustainable purchasing and supply chains are on municipal agendas across Canada. Increasingly, decision-makers are recognizing that sustainable procurement practices add value to their carbon neutral programs, zero waste goals, economic development opportunities, risk management, leadership, efficiency and innovation while positively engaging their staff and the communities they ...

Mar. 20, 2012

By GLOBE Foundation

LONDON - 25 January 2007 Satellite, the UK's leading integrated ethical agency are appointed as design consultants for the London Centre of Excellence Sustainable Procurement Project being led by the London Borough of Camden. Developing sustainable procurement is an important national policy priority. The 2005 UK Sustainable Development Strategy announced the UK's goal of becoming 'a leader ...

Jan. 26, 2007

By International Green Awards

Every year, Canada's fifteen largest municipalities spend over 10 billion dollars annually on goods, services, and capital projects. The adoption of sustainable procurement practices by these municipalities presents a huge opportunity for local governments to strengthen ties with small and medium sized enterprises. To local businesses which specialize in sustainable goods and services, the ...

Jul. 4, 2012

By GLOBE Foundation

Informed procurement choices can support sustainable forest management, help protect workers’ health and the rights of those who depend on forests. Increasingly, those involved in public sector and corporate purchasing are setting ambitious targets which aim to eliminate deforestation from their supply chains. The ‘Sustainable Procurement Guide for Wood and Paper-based Products’ ...

Aug. 13, 2015

By PEFC International

Entec has been appointed to provide planning services to support the Essex Waste Partnership's procurement of major long term waste contracts. ...

Apr. 8, 2010

Amid increasing interest in alternative transportation fuels, a new report shows how federal agencies and other large commercial customers can buy sustainably produced biofuels and avoid those linked to major deforestation, destroyed wildlife habitat and fouled waterways. The report “Biofuel Sustainability Performance Guidelines,” was commissioned by the Natural Resources Defense ...

Jul. 29, 2014

By Natural Resources Defense Council

Today, WRI and the WBCSD release an update to the guide “Sustainable Procurement of Wood and Paper-Based Products.” The guide is meant to help company managers—who are charged with making large purchases of wood and paper products but may not have the time or the knowledge to ...

Jul. 22, 2011

By World Resources Institute WRI

Government departments need to ensure that their procurement decisions minimise waste levels and increase recycling rates, according to a new report. The National Audit Office report entitled Addressing the environmental impacts of Government procurement found that a number of Government departments are not yet on course to be practising sustainable procurement across their business by the end of ...

Apr. 29, 2009

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

Public authorities in Europe have the purchasing power to encourage a shift in society towards greener production and consumption patterns by including environmental criteria in public tenders. A recent study has concluded that Green Public Procurement (GPP) has had a positive environmental impact: public authorities in the seven 'greenest' EU Member States achieved a 25 per cent reduction in ...

Jun. 15, 2009

By European Commission, Environment DG

Taiga Company blog by Julie Urlaub, Founder and Managing Partner at Taiga Company Much of the popular press indicates that big business is beginning to shift its purchasing towards more sustainable or ‘green’ options.  Within our ...

Feb. 3, 2011

By 3BL Media

For its effectiveness in implementing its green procurement strategy and for having a classification system of its suppliers based on sustainability criteria, Ecopetrol (NYSE: EC; BVC: ECOPETROL; BVL: EC; TSX: ECP) has received the 2011 Sustainable Vendor Rating award in the Large Corporation ...

Oct. 12, 2011

By Ecopetrol S.A.

The percentage of renewable electricity purchased by U.S. companies in the information and communication technology (ICT) sector is growing and will likely increase significantly by the start of the next decade, according to a first-ever analysis by the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The report, ...

Aug. 20, 2015

By National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Energy is arguable one of the major challenges the world faces today, and Eltek is stepping up to contribute! The United Nation (UN) states that for those living in extreme poverty, a lack of access to modern energy services dramatically affects health, limits opportunities and widens the gap between the haves and the haves not. This week, Eltek is participating in ...

Jun. 15, 2016

By Eltek AS

The California Public Utilities Commission’s recent 1.3GW storage mandate to be fulfilled by the states 3 major utilities by 2020 has led to utilities across the nation putting procurement plans in place to avoid being caught out by a wholesale federal roll out of similar legislation.   While much of the early research has been focused on the technological development of utility ...

Jan. 27, 2014

By FCBI Energy

"Sustainability in the Global Power Industry 2011-2012: Market Trends and Opportunities, Profitability and Budget Forecasts, Power Industry Procurement and Marketing Initiatives" is a new market research report that analyzes how companies in the power industry perceive sustainability. The report contains in-depth analysis on the principal drivers and challenges with regards to sustainability plus ...

Nov. 25, 2011

Crowberry Consulting was a runner up in the Sustainable Procurement category at the recent North West Business Environment Awards, held at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, UK. Crowberry takes active steps to ensure the sustainability of its own business process, purchasing green energy to run its office, 100% recycled paper, re-using materials such as toner cartridges, has its own Environment ...

Jun. 28, 2007

By Crowberry Consulting

Cheshire-based procurement outsourcing service company, Inprova Group has bought two non-domestic energy brokers, energyTEAM and ENER-G Procurement. energyTEAM, based in Burgess Hill, West Sussex has been purchased from its two owners for an undisclosed sum. The company has been running for nearly 40 years, helping over 800 clients such as Virgin Atlantic, Hotel du Vin Group and fashion retail ...

Apr. 17, 2015

By Inprova Energy

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Dec. 15, 2011

Taiga Company Blog by Julie Urlaub, Founder and Managing Partner at Taiga Company Sustainability - CSR - Green Business - Do we have an exact, precise definition of what these terms mean or do they all blur together?  Quite often in our business sustainability ...

Feb. 8, 2011

By 3BL Media

Offshoring - The Wal-Mart effect - Corporate Responsibility - These are some of the drivers behind the trend line towards more green and sustainable purchasing. More and more organizations are adopting sustainability or Corporate Responsibility (CR) commitments - public declarations that the firm is integrating environmental, ethical, and social factors throughout their business strategies, ...

Oct. 6, 2008

By GLOBE Foundation