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Procurement platform helps reduce CO2 by 65,000 tonnes
January 7, 2015
Procurement platform helps reduce CO2 by 65,000 tonnes
Public tenders published through the GPP 2020 project have saved the equivalent of over 65,000 tonnes of CO2 since the project began, more than the CO2 produced by 10,000 average European households each year. The project, co-funded by the Intelligent Energy Europe programme of the European Commission, is an online resource where low-carbon tenders are accessible to procurers and public authorities across a wide variety of topics, from the purchase of white goods to the leasing of green vehicles. The available tenders have also saved an impressive 15,000 tonnes of oil equivalent.
The savings are based on a comparison between emissions of previous, or standard, tenders and those of the new tenders that have been implemented by the purchasing partners of GPP 2020. To date, 15 tender models have been uploaded to the GPP 2020 website, outlining exactly how different councils across Europe have implemented low-carbon tenders. These models include procurement approaches and award criteria that can be implemented by other public authorities.
Read more at ICLEI Europe.
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