The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences’ project Resource Effectiveness and the Circular Economy has assembled more than 50 companies, organisations and public authorities around the vision of Sweden being the leading nation as a resource-effective, circular society. The purpose is to strengthen Sweden’s competitiveness in a future with finite resources in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Textiles were chosen as one of five subprojects.

Guide for reducing GHG emissions from vehicles and equipment purchases includes a fact sheet and a checklist to help the deciders make better and more sustainable choices.

This directory presents the best practices in terms of commitments (policies), legal texts (laws, guidelines) and tenders for social economy companies to access public procurement. These practices have been documented in Canada, the European Union as well as the United Kingdom.

This project aims to provide an operational purchasing guide from SEEs to Quebec organizations that have committed to purchase from them. This guide serves as an inventory of good practices to be implemented at the key stages of the procurement process to ensure that the SEEs is taken into account. It focuses on buying from SEEs more than on the larger “social purchasing” concept.

The Barometer was deployed so that organizations could have a practical tool to objectively identify their standing in terms of sustainable procurement.
It also gives them access to a personalized summary of their organization’s procurement performance to allow them to be able to assess how they measure up to the market compared to other organizations. Furthermore, it is simple and quick means to update your knowledge in regard to responsible procurement.

The Total Cost of Ownership analysis provides a sustainability assessment by taking into account the total life cycle costs of a project when analyzing various solutions. More specifically, it aims to extend the concept of price in the calculation of tenders to include various maintenance, monitoring and other related costs incurred during the possession of the product until its end of life.

Its objective is to equip individuals in the construction sector with tools and knowledge in order to allow them to make profound and lasting changes in the way construction’s projects are planned and done, while responding to the circular economy principles.

Estilos de vida sostenible, producíon y consumo alimenticio. Organizadores gráficos y Modelo de Aprendizaje de Rutas Adaptado.

Is the tenth in the Active Methodology Images and Objects series and aims to strengthen learners' ability to deal with socio-scientific issues (SSIs) and Grand Challenges (i.e., urgent global problems) which relate directly to the pursuit of sustainable development.

To provide tangible support to requisitioners and purchasing agents seeking to make sustainable acquisitions, ECPAR has developed a series of sustainable purchasing sheets on common goods and services; eight of them are publicly available.

Designed to meet the needs of different types of users (buyers, sustainability team, final user), these sheets include those sections: before buying, sustainable purchasing, rationale and additional information and references.

La jurisprudence admet la possibilité d’intégrer parmi les critères de sélection un critère social à la condition que ce critère soit en lien avec l’objet du marché ou les conditions d’exécution. Comme pour les clauses sociales les clauses et critères environnementaux ne sont possibles que s’ils sont en lien avec l’objet du marché. Il faut toujours un lien avec l’objet ou l’exécution du marché.

Ce mémento est un document à destination des acheteurs de l’Educ et du Sup ayant pour
objet de mettre en pratique les préconisations de la « Charte ministérielle des achats
responsables »(charte publiée en février 2019).

Ce mémento :
1. Rappelle les outils à dispositions des acheteurs (page 2 : en matière
environnementale, page 3 en matière sociale),
2. Transmet des indicateurs de performance sociale et environnementale (page 4),
3. Présente un plan d’actions en quelques étapes (pages 5 et 6).

ANNEXE 1 : TEXTES ET EVENEMENTS FONDATEURS/IMPORTANTS
ANNEXE 2 : ACHETER RESPONSABLE : EST-CE PLUS CHER ?
ANNEXE 3 : CHARTE DES RELATIONS FOURNISSEURS RESPONSABLES :
LISTE DES DIX ENGAGEMENTS
ANNEXE 4 : L’ACHAT PUBLIC, LEVIER STRATEGIQUE DE L’ETAT
ANNEXE 5 : LEXIQUE

La protection de l’environnement et le progrès social sont des vecteurs de bien-être pour notre
société, au même titre que la croissance économique. Si, désormais, les achats responsables sont sécurisés juridiquement, la prise en compte d’objectifs de développement durable s’inscrit toujours dans le cadre des principes du CCP. L’autre fonction de cette charte est de rappeler que l’achat socialement responsable fait partie intégrante du développement durable.

Despite an increasing recognition of the importance of a conducive and aligned public procurement policy and regulatory frameworks for the implementation of public food procurement initiatives that target smallholder farmers, very little has been said about how such an alignment can be achieved. This publication aims to contribute to this discussion, bringing an analysis of four country experiences and of the various legal mechanisms that can be used within the school food procurement context.

The overall objective of the study is to present the Republic of Korea’s GPP impact measurement methodology, to compare it to others used by other public authorities internationally and to pilot a macro-economic analysis of the economic and environmental impacts of the Republic of Korea’s GPP policy in order to improve the approaches used by the government to estimate GPP impacts and benefits. Also, it provides guidance to governments reforming their GPP policies and measurement approaches.

Institutional food procurement programmes (IFPPs) refer to initiatives that are designed to link institutional demand for food to broader development objectives. In developing countries, IFPPs are increasingly viewed as approaches that facilitate the transformation of local food systems. This publication shares lessons from the Purchase for Progress (P4P) pilot initiative of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), as well as Brazil’s National School Feeding Programme (PNAE) and the public

This publication is a select extract from the full 2016 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report: Education for people and planet: Creating sustainable futures for all (UNESCO, 2016). It contains three chapters from that Report: Prosperity, Partnership and the policy recommendations to transform education for sustainable development. It also includes one chapter from the Gender Review of the 2016 Report, focusing on the links between education, gender equality and work.

This background report reviews the state of existing research and data on relevant sustainable development content in social science education in countries around the world. Specifically, it examines the extent to which textbook content could help learners acquire the knowledge, skills, and values needed to meet goal 4.7 of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.

This paper has been produced to inform UNESCO in its preparation for the 2017 Global Education Monitoring Report (GEM) Report. Its purpose is to examine the current preparation of teachers in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Global Citizenship Education (GCED) as outlined in the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 4.7.

This study examines the nature of, and how, non-formal and informal programs and activitiescontribute to the acquisition of knowledge and skills for children, adolescents, youth and adults in precise areas of Target 4.7. This is done by highlighting different definitions, conceptual approaches and history, along with policies of GCED and ESD and non-formal education and informal learning, comparing attempts to operationalize GCED and ESD to indicators for measurement and monitoring.

This study is an initial attempt to monitor ESD and GCED content in curricula globally. The goal here is to analyse national curriculum documents to reveal if, how, and to what extent ESD and GCED content is present across the globe. For this purpose, the research team developed a coding scheme based on key ESD and GCED knowledge, skills, behaviours and pedagogies that was used in evaluating the various national curriculum documents for evidence of ESD and GCED content.

This paper presents an analytical overview of historical efforts by UNESCO Member States to implement the 1974 Recommendation concerning education for international understanding, cooperation and peace education.
The main purpose of the review was to provide a historical overview of efforts to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Targets 4.7, 12.8 and 13.3 and their proposed measurement indicators, based on states’ historical reporting on the Recommendation.

This summary report explores the achievements of the four year ECAP (European Clothing Action Plan) project, part funded by EU LIFE.The project set out to bring environmental and economic benefit to the clothing sector through a range of work packages co-funded and delivered by European partners. It covered a range of innovation projects, conducted through eight work streams by partners in several European countries.

This case study details work done by Morrisons supermarkets, who trialled changes to the fresh produce section in their Skipton store. The case study evaluates the changes, details some key learnings, and looks at the next steps for the supermarket. Changes made in the Morrisons store included increasing the number of fresh produce lines sold loose, changing merchandising of fresh produce, and displaying loose vegetables in wooden crates/ creating chalkboard signage to enhance a 'market feel'.

Embedding a culture of Target, Measure, Act into the food and drink sector is critical to achieving the Courtauld 2025 targets and UN Sustainable Development Goal 12.3. The ambitious aim for the Food Waste Reduction Roadmap was to have 50% of the UK’s largest 250 food businesses implementing Target, Measure, Act by September 2019, aiming for all by 2026.

The Plastics Market Situation Report is part of WRAP’s series of reports that provides in-depth information on the latest economic, market and regulatory trends affecting the capture and recycling of recovered plastics.

UNESCO seeks to advance a holistic approach to education that emphasizes three inter-related dimensions of learning – the cognitive, social and emotional and behavioural.
This publication summarizes the findings of a study commissioned by UNESCO to examine if and how these 3 dimensions of learning and teaching of ESD and GCED are reflected in pre-primary, primary and secondary educational content (ie. national laws, policies and the intended curriculum) in 10 countries.