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Farid Yaker
Programme Officer, Sustainable Public Procurement
United Nations Environment Programme
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UNEP’s SPP Approach
Introductory workshop on Sustainable Public Procurement and eco-labelling
In the Republic of Azerbaijan
20 December 2022

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Our
Mission
To accelerate the world’s transition
towards more Sustainable
Consumption and Production policies
and practices by supporting our
member States in the
implementation of sustainable public
procurement, and developing tools
and solutions to enhance the
performance of SPP

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Our
Vision
Sustainable Procurement is
good procurement

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Who do we
work with?
• Governments
• Public Procurement
Authorities
• SPP Consultants/experts
• Academic Institutions
• Private Sector

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Assisting governments in SPP Implementation (2013- to date)

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SDG 12.7 PROMOTE PUBLIC PROCUREMENT
PRACTICES THAT ARE SUSTAINABLE, IN
ACCORDANCE WITH NATIONAL POLICIES AND
PRIORITIES

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• Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and
production patterns
• Target 12.7:Promote public procurement
practices that are sustainable in accordance
with national policies and priorities
• Indicator 12.7.1: Number of countries
implementing sustainable public
procurement policies and action plans
SDG 12

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Sources: WTO, 2015; Eurostat, 2017; European Commission 2018
Why Sustainable Public
Procurement?
Graph: Procurement as % of GDP in low-income, lower middle income, upper middle income and high income countries (World Bank 2016)
13% of GDP in
OECD countries
(2015)
10-15% of GDP
assumed as the
worldwide average
(2015)
16% of GDP in the
EU (2017)

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Procurement in national
governments
EU: 2 trillion euros
US: 1.7 trillion USD
World: 11 trillion USD

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Definition of SP
Sustainable Procurement (SP) is
… the process whereby organizations meet their
needs for goods, services, works and utilities in a
way that achieves “value for money on a whole life
basis” in terms of generating benefits not only to the
organization, but also to society and the economy,
whilst minimizing, and if possible avoiding, damage
to the environment
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Definition of GPP
Green Public Procurement (GPP) is
“a process whereby public authorities seek to
procure goods, services, and works with a reduced
environmental impact throughout their life cycle
when compared to goods, services and works with
the same primary function that would otherwise be
procured”.
Definition adopted by the European Commission

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All life cycle costs and impacts
Monetized Life cycle costs (LCC)
Total cost of ownership
(TCO)
Price
Organization Society
Acquisition, use
& end of life costs
Cost of externalities
environmental/social
Non-monetized
externalities
Purchasing Price
+
+
+
Source: UN Environment / ISO 20400
Life Cycle Costing

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Sustainable procurement is about buying
better products from better companies

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• Can be recycled
• Have a recycled content
• Be energy efficient
• Emission reducing
• Re-usable
• Biodegradable
• Organic
What is a ‘Green’ product?

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Only the best products can be awarded to use the logo; Consumers may buy
these products without doubt.
Type I Ecolabelling

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Greening supply chains

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Source: Remarks for SPLC’s 2014 Summit in Washington, DC
“ Our acquisition of goods and services
creates a carbon footprint nine times that
of our buildings
and fleet, put together.”
Dan Tangherlini
Administrator
US General Services Administration

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Within Operations
Within Supply Chain
Source:
SPLC
Sustainability Impacts & Opportunities

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Not just private or public procurement but
institutional purchasing

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$ 10.1
Trillion
67%
Household Goods Exports
Institutional Purchasing
$ 2.4
Trillion
16%
$ 1.9
Trillion
12%
Source: SPLC
Share of US GDP by end-use consumption

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• …are uniquely positioned to demand
transparency into the upstream and
downstream impacts of goods and
services.
• …are capable of incorporating
sustainability criteria into purchasing
decisions and send consistent signals to
the market at a scale that can be
transformative.
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Source: SPLC
Purchasing organizations

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UNEP SPP Guidelines

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TO GUIDE COUNTRIES IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF NATIONAL
SPP POLICIES AND ACTION PLANS.
Goals of the Approach
Policy
Framework
Action Plan
Legitimizes actions
Informs the market
Defines
responsibilities
Outlines stages of
implementation

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Outputs of the SPP Approach

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Summary of the Approach
• Ongoing training during the process
• Application adapted to national context

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More information
› UNEP SPP Portal
https://www.unep.org/explore-topics/resource-efficiency/what-we-do/sustainable-
public-procurement
› Projects' Outputs

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Farid Yaker
farid.yaker@un.org
Thank you
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