November, 2009

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Sustainable Procurement: Are public authorities doing enough?

EcoVadis

The B2B community Agrion just published an interesting article , raising the question: Green Procurement: Are private companies greener than the authorities? There is at least one area where I see a fundamental difference between Private and Public Green Procurement. There are 2 dimensions to Sustainable procurement: – Products (i.e. optimizing the environmental impact of products and services purchased). – Suppliers (controlling and improving the CSR practices of Suppliers).