Sustainable Purchasing

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: How green is your shopping basket?

About Sustainable Purchasing

Sustainable Purchasing focuses on purchasing that balances environmental, social and economic impacts and through a preference for products or services that:

Reduce greenhouse gas emissions through energy and fuel efficiency
Contain recycled content
Are reused or recycled at end of life
Are non-toxic
Are made or recycled locally
Minimise unnecessary packaging
Minimise further purchasing
Provide long-term value for money.

ICLEI and Sustainable Purchasing

ICLEI Oceania assisted councils to lower their purchasing related emissions from 2002 to 2009. Past sustainable purchasing projects include:

2002/2003 Green Purchasing Pilot Project
2005-2007 CCP Plus Sustainable Purchasing Advancing Action Project
2008/2009 Switch IT Over

The ICLEI European office delivers the sustainable procurement campaign Procura+™ which supports public authorities in Europe to implement socially and environmentally sustainable public procurement.

Sustainable Purchasing Resources

Taking Action: Step through a five milestone framework with the assistance of tailored resources to review your current sustainable purchasing capacity, plan goals and actions to improve on your baseline, and review and re-strategise to keep going.
Resources: View a range of interesting case studies and resources to get started on sustainable purchasing intiatives.

Cities for Climate Protection® (CCP®) Australia: implementing greenhouse action through a collaboration between the Australian Government and ICLEI Oceania. The CCP® Australia Program is funded by the Australian Government.