CONTENTS
FOREWORD = 3
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY = 9
The potential for Greener Public Purchasing = 9
Responding to Public Demand = 10
Generating and managing changes in procurement = 10
Practical Instruments for Purchasers = 11
Improving the framework conditions = 12
Buying by the rules = 12
Avoiding extra burdens = 13
Implementing innovative procurement practices = 13
Trade aspects = 13
CHAPTER 1 : THE POTENTIAL FOR THE SUSTAINABLE PUBLIC PROCUREMENT OF GOODS & SERVICES = 15
An agenda for action = 15
Integrating the environment = 16
Public Consumption = 16
Structure of public purchasing = 17
Enhancing the environmental performance of government = 19
Facilitating Green Purchasing by promoting environmental management = 21
Asking the right questions = 23
Serving several policy objectives = 26
Ensuring the co-operation of all administration = 27
EXAMPLES AND TABLES[CHAPTER 1] = 29
Example 1.1 - Centralised and decentralised purchasing in the United States = 29
Example 1.2 - Greening of Government in France, part Ⅰ, ("Le verdissement des administrations") = 29
Example 1.3 - Environmental Policy of the City of G$$\ddot o$$teborg, Adopted by the City Council on 12 December 1996 = 30
Example 1.4 - The Dutch "Environmental Clause" = 33
Example 1.5 - The Environmentally Preferable Products Programme of Massachusetts = 34
CHAPTER 2 : CURRENT PURCHASING PRACTICES AND STRATEGIES FOR CHANGE = 37
Differences with consumer buying = 37
Opening the markets through greater harmonisation = 38
Increasing transparency = 39
Tendering process, procedures and rules = 40
Specifications and types of tendering = 41
Criteria to evaluate tenders = 43
Underlying structural changes = 45
Privatising purchasing agencies = 46
Decentralising procurement decisions = 46
Introducing information technologies = 47
Range of Approaches = 47
EXAMPLES[CHAPTER 2] = 49
Example 2.1 - Selling to public purchasers through "Benefits" = 49
Example 2.2 - Procurement Service Austria = 50
Example 2.3 - Greening of Government Operations initiative in Canada = 50
Example 2.4 - Denmark's "Action Plan for Sustainable Public Procurement Policy" = 51
Example 2.5 - Greening of Government in France, part Ⅱ, ("Le verdissement des administrations") = 51
Example 2.6 - Germany's instruments to support local initiatives = 52
Example 2.7 - Japan's "Action Plan for Greening of Government Operations" = 52
Example 2.8 - Switzerland : grass-roots procurement = 53
Example 2.9 - United States - "Greening of Government through waste prevention, recycling and Federal acquisition" = 53
Example 2.10 - The UK approach : value for money = 54
Example 2.11 - UNEP : an international organisation in action = 56
CHAPTER 3 : COMMON CHALLENGES : DEVELOPING PRACTICAL INSTRUMENTS FOR PURCHASES = 57
Availability of environmental information = 57
Environmentally preferred products = 58
Single-issue labels = 59
Adopting a life cycle approach = 61
The market at work = 62
Ecolabelling = 63
Guidebooks = 66
Environmentally preferred enterprises = 67
EXAMPLES[CHAPTER 3] = 69
Example 3.1 - PMA Environmental Consultants, Nijmegen, the Netherlands = 69
Example 3.2 - Canadian Standard Z766-95 Environmentally Responsible Procurement("Green Procurement") - January 1995 = 69
Example 3.3 - Supporting the recycled materials market = 71
Example 3.4 - Achieving energy efficiency to counter climate change = 71
Example 3.5 - Stakeholder involvement in Switzerland : mutual benefits = 72
Example 3.6 - Multi-attribute matrices = 72
Example 3.7 - The Swedish guidelines for ecologically sustainable procurement = 73
CHAPTER 4 : COMMON CHALLENGES : IMPROVING THE FRAMEWORK CONDITIONS TO OVERCOME THE BARRIERS = 75
Managing environmental performance = 76
A few hurdles to avoid = 77
Budgeting, financing and economic signals that influence procurement = 78
The integration of environmental costs in tenders = 79
More financial tools = 80
Regulatory/statutory issues = 81
Trade effects = 81
ANNEX Ⅰ = 85
REFERENCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY = 89
PUBLIC PURCHASING ON THE INTERNET = 101
GREENER PUBLIC PURCHASING HOT-LINES = 109