RELIEF - Environmental Relief Potential of Urban Action on Avoidance and Detoxification of Waste Streams through Green Public Procurement
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Public procurement amounts to approximately 12% of the gross domestic product of industrialized countries. The greatest part of it is controlled by municipalities. Consequently, their procurement decisions have an enormous potential to initiate and support sustainable development. Measures which have already been taken have not had a substantial impact on production processes and products yet.
The European research project RELIEF is concerned with the development of an over-all European strategy to wipe out barriers that hinder green public procurement. The project is based on data collections and the use of scenario models. Aims of the project were:
- to analyse the current situation in public procurement and to identify the product groups most relevant for the environmental relief of public procurement,
- to develop methods for identifying hurdles of green public procurement as well as for determining the environmental relief potential, market conditions, and economical costs and benefits for the selected product groups,
- to calculate the environmental relief potential for different scenarios,
- to encourage recommendations for a European-wide green procurement policy and guidelines, and
- to develop an international campaign called "Cities for Green Purchasing Campaign"
As a partner in this project, TU Dresden developed a method for identifying hurdles of green public procurement. This hurdles analysis is the basis for further projects (the hurdles analysis, Green eBusiness). Furthermore, the hurdles analysis is one of the main research fields at our chair.
Leadership
Researchers
Dipl.-Kffr. Ines Klauke, Dipl.-Kffr. Lilly Scheibe
Cooperation
- The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI), The European Secretariat, Department Green Procurement, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
- Institute of Public Finance and Infrastrucure Policy, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- dk-TEKNIK ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT, Kobenhavn, Denmark
- Inter-University Research Center for Technology, Work and Culture (IFZ), Graz, Austria
- Center for Environmental Studies (CES), Budapest, Hungary
- Municipalities of different european cities
Term
01/2001 - 10/2003
Financing
Publications, Presentations and Press Review
For information about publications, presentations and press review please visit our parallel German website: RELIEF - Environmental relief potential of urban action on avoidance and detoxification of waste streams through green public procurement.