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Biodiversity Duty-guidance for Local Authorities. |
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The Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act placed a duty on all public authorities to have regard to the conservation of Biodiversity from October 2006. Local Authorities have a key role to play through their role in:
- developing and influencing local policies and strategies
- planning and development control
- owning and managing their own estate
- procurement
- education, awareness raising and advisory functions.
Conservation of biodiversity has wider implications on creating sustainable communities. [Open] |
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Browne C et al (2002) Commodity Guidance. Environment Agency. |
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Guidance on commodities purchased by the Environment Agency has been produced in areas such as IT, Aggregates, Sand, Electronics etc. This has been researched from publicly available information on the life cycle processes, environmental and ethical impacts. Furthermore, potential mitigation measures are also identified for purchasers to action. [Open] |
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Browne C et al. Sustainable Procurement Guide. Environment Agency. |
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This sustainable procurement guide has been developed to provide a best practice temlate for the Environment Agency, which brings together best practice and latest R&D work. The guide should also provide a base for other organisations that are looking to enhance their sustainability within their procurement/supply chain activities. It can be used as a base to develop an approach that suits a particular organisations culture and values regarding environmental and social issues. [Open] |
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Buying a Better London |
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The Buying a Better London programme comprised a series of innovative yet pragmatic workstreams to investigate and develop the connection between local authority procurement and business communities. The planned outcomes of the programme were to:
- provide valuable information for procurement and regeneration practitioners
- identify innovative improvements to existing procurement practice and systems
- be used to improve procuremenr performance and contribute to the drive for efficiency savings and value for money
- feed into wider procurement and regeneration practice across the capital. [Open] |
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Buying a Better World. Forum for the Future (March 2008) |
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The new Forum for the Future report on sustainable procurement, Buying a better world, is deliberately detailed.
It's clear that many public sector buyers now feel that considering the sustainability goals of their organisation, when making spending decisions, makes sense. However, Forum for the Future's experiences with buyers over a number of years suggest that knowing how to do this in practice still remains a stumbling block.
"There needs to be a shift from having the right policies in place and knowing it's a good idea, to actually taking some bold spending decisions. Decisions that will contribute significantly to a better future for us all" (FfF)
The report goes into some detail about practical actions that buyers can take to improve the sustainability of any area of spend. The accompanying Sustainable Procurement Toolkit, is designed to help public sector organisations start taking action straight away. [Open] |
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Buying Green Procurement Guide |
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The European Commission have published ‘Buying Green’, a handbook on environmental public procurement. The handbook covers the essentials of green public procurement, including a step-by-step guide to green purchasing, the connection between public purchasing and the environment and the potential environmental benefits. [Open] |
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