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The project Eco-Advance: Ecolabels and Sustainable Public Procurement, funded by the German International Climate Initiative (IKI), aims to increase the use of sustainable public procurement (SPP) and Type-1 Ecolabels as tools to improve climate...

A new report from the Nordic Council of Ministers takes stock of the work on the sustainable transition – which seems more relevant than ever now, after a summer of extreme weather events. The report shows that the green transition remains the...

“The government is a really big buyer, so [it] can use the strength to propose new and necessary patterns toward healthier and more sustainable parameters. Especially when we are talking about children and fundamental guarantees such as food security...

“It’s important to link the procurement with some of the teaching, and that’s why I brought the potato to one of the conferences. It was just to show that often you forget what it is that we’re talking about: it’s just served on the plate, you eat it...