Greening Public Procurement
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Rapid two-digit economic growth over the last three decades has led to a big increase of consumption in virtually every sector in China. Current patterns of consumption have led to the depletion of resources and are not sustainable. Since 2002 primary energy consumption has been increasing at an average rate of 13% annually. High, largely coal-based energy consumption leads to extreme local air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. A considerable share ofChina’s consumption can be attributed to the public sector: In 2006, public consumption made up 14% of GDP. Although China has several policies targeting eco-efficient consumption in place, implementation remains rather weak.
The SWITCH-Asia project “Green Public Procurement” (SuPP-Urb) aims to mitigating climate change and to reducing environmental degradation. With these goals, it contribute to achieving the environmental targets of the Chinese government’s 11th five-year plan. The project implements and mainstreams sustainable public procurement (SPP) on city level. The project adapts and uses sustainable public procurement standards in municipal Public Procurement Centres (PPCs) of the cities Tianjin, Qinhuangda and Lanzhou.
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The kick-off meeting of SuPP-Urb China was held from 21 to 23 April, 2009, in Qinhuangdao. Among the participants were representatives from the EC delegation in China and Mongolia, from the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP), from the China Standard Certification Centre, and from the Municipality of Qinhuangdao, as well as experts from each of the project partners and representatives of all associate municipalities. During the meeting, objectives, actions and main activities were clarified, as well as project planning and management agreed upon. In addition, the meeting served for knowledge sharing on existing eco-labels and on the process of public procurement in China, including the presentation of good practice case studies.
The project Greening Public Procurement held a stakeholder workshop on the 11th and 12th of March 2010 to present and discuss the action plans for sustainable public procurement of the three partner cities of Qinhuangdao, Tianjin and Lanzhou. Participants came from 12 associated cities, supplier companies, the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection, as well as from the EC Delegation to China and discussed major factors for the successful implementation of sustainable public procurement.
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