Potentials of Green Procurement in Municipalities - a Market-based View concerning Green Electricity as an Example
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Public procurement has an enormous potential to support sustainable development and to relieve some pressure on the environment. Public procurement policy is also a possibility to provide incentives to market participants for more environment-friendly behaviour. The state, as a demanding actor on the market, could also have influence on the market of green products and services.
Within the research project "Potentials of a Sustainable Procurement and Instruments for Implementation" (NaBesI), the researchers realised an empirical survey in Saxon municipalities by using a standardised questionnaire. Results show that the municipalities barely integrate environmental aspects in procurement decisions. The most important obstacle is the lack of financial resources and, on the second position, "lack of environmental knowledge/know how". That is contrary to the fact that a lot of initiatives in green procurement have been developed in the last 20 years. New projects with websites, information, and proceedings on green public procurement will be initiated, although, as has already been stated, information is not the most important obstacle.
Furthermore, researchers and practitioners argue that public procurement has an enormous demand potential. But it has not yet been determined how this demand and its positive and negative impacts on the market could be analysed.
The project explained how an analysis of potentials from a market-based view has to be designed.
The research project NaBesI has shown that the procurement process differs between several product groups or services. Therefore it is assumed that this has an influence on the mentioned potential analysis. In order to illustrate this problem, an analysis was carried out for the procurement process of green electricity as an example.
Leadership
Researchers
Dipl.-Kffr. Ines Klauke
Term
until 2006
Financing
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