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and Finance, and Public Procurement Service are working collaboratively to promote green purchasing policies across all … people in finance, procurement, public works, city planning, environmental compliance, waste management and sustainability …
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Public Procurement Plan. This plan covers all public administrations including the General State Administration, its … guarantee a more rational and economic use of public funds, to promote environmental clauses in public procurement, and to … publicize the possibilities offered by the legal framework for green public procurement. However, at the local level, many …
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The Japanese Ministry of Environment is promoting green purchasing policies across all levels of Japanese government. A primary reason is that green purchasing policies have the potential to significantly reduce carbon impacts across the globe and can help Japan achieve its carbon emissions...
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Overall government procurement in Mexico is about $63.5 billion, making it a substantial source of the country’s total …
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While green purchasing policies have the potential to significantly reduce carbon impacts across the globe, most U.S. cities have either struggled to implement them or do not have one at all. Consequently, these policies have not reached their potential to help local governments mitigate their...
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, procurement, public works, city planning, environmental compliance, waste management and sustainability-related positions in …
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Increasing concern about global sustainability has ushered in a diverse set of regulatory policies that aim to encourage sustainable practices and outcomes. This chapter sheds light on how these regulatory policies affect multiple aspects of companies' sustainable supply chain practices. It...
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Since governments are the largest buyers globally, they have enormous purchasing power. Government purchasing, therefore, has potential to be leveraged to improve social outcomes, such as helping disadvantaged communities, ensuring labor rights, and minimizing negative environmental impacts....
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Ecolabels are designed to help consumers identify environmentally superior products and services, however, they are not all created equal. Some ecolabels have strong rules that promote environmental improvements, while others have weaker rules that permit free-riding. Since information about...
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also commonly held that the adoption of e-procurement solutions can be effective in pursuing such an objective. To this end …, we analyze the transactions completed in the period 2004-2007 through the Italian Government's e-procurement platform …, that is, the marketplace managed by the Italian Public Procurement Agency (Consip S.p.A.). Although descriptive statistics …
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