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7 August 2024

Public buyers can upgrade expertise with procurement training

Municipal public buyers can take part in training opportunities designed to improve the administrative capacity of the staff with key procurement functions in European central purchasing. The programme offers a combination of practical and academic approaches, allowing participants to benefit from t...

Circular Economy Procurement

6 August 2024

Sustainability in action at Paris 2024 Olympics

As our summers grow hotter, Europe’s cities are increasingly seeking new ways to provide their citizens opportunities to cool down. A river in the middle of a city can go a long way to that end, but as Olympic triathletes found out, cleaning up river waste is no easy feat. Cleaning up the Sein...

Governance Innovation Procurement

21 June 2024

Intelligent Cities Challenge offered training on Local Green Deals

On 18-19 June, the City of Porto (Portugal) hosted the Intelligent Cities Challenge (ICC) Implementation Lab conference at Palacio da Bolsa. The event brought together 298 participants, including around 60 ICC core cities as well as 8 ICC mentor cities, with a strong presence of ICLEI Members Aalbor...

Built Environment & Culture Construction Procurement

17 June 2024

Public procurement stimulates demand for sustainable construction skills

The built environment in Europe accounts for about 50% of all extracted material, for 35% of CO2 emissions, and for over 35% of the EU’s total waste generation. Implementing nearly Zero-Energy Buildings (nZEB) can be used to reduce this climate impact and presents an opportunity for cost-effec...

Procurement Sustainable Mobility

16 May 2024

Oslo uses public procurement to reach zero emissions

ICLEI Member Oslo (Norway) is pushing forward to become an emission-free city, with the goal to use only zero emission technologies by 2030. Public procurement is one of the tools the city is using to achieve that goal, as explained by Geir Rossebø (Team Leader Climate & Environment) duri...

Procurement Sustainable Food Systems

30 April 2024

ICLEI's innovative guide on Procurement of Sustainable and Healthy School Meals recognised

"The Innovation Radar is a European Commission initiative to identify high potential innovations" in EU-funded projects aiming to give innovative approaches more visibility and make them more accessible to the broader public. Recently, one of ICLEI Europe's publications in the thematic area of publi...

Procurement

22 April 2024

Join the European Commission’s workshops on socially responsible public procurement

Socially responsible public procurement (SRPP) asks public buyers to look beyond the price of goods and services, and consider the larger picture around how they are produced, sourced and delivered. To support this objective, the European Commission is organising training workshops on SRPP aimed at ...

Biodiversity & NBS Procurement

17 April 2024

How sustainable public procurement advances New European Bauhaus

Within the Big Buyers Working Together (BBWT) project, a Community of Practice (CoP) focused on the New European Bauhaus (NEB) is the first European initiative to explore meaningful links between the NEB and sustainable public procurement. This CoP, led by ICLEI Europe, kicked off recently with a we...

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15 April 2024

Local Alliance urges EU to stay the course on EU Green Deal

ICLEI and seven other leading networks of European cities and regions - ACR+, CEMR, Climate Alliance, Energy Cities, Eurocities, FEDARENE, and POLIS - have come together to form the Local Alliance ahead of the EU elections. In a joint letter, the Alliance calls on EU leaders to find new ways ...

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