Buying green: the crucial role of public authorities

Day, Catherine

doi:10.1080/1354983042000388214

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“…It is based on the notion that the public sector can exert significant market power as about 16% of European Union's gross national product is spent on public purchases of products and services (PWC 2009). In addition to market power, current discussions on green or sustainable public procurement stress the importance of government "setting a good example" (Day 2005;European Communities 2004). Food is one of the priority areas in which public procurement is expected to have both a market shaping and an exemplary and educational role (European Commission 2008).…”

Section: Empirical Context Data and Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Endorsing Sustainable Food Consumption: Prospects from Public Catering

2011

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The aim of this article was to analyse an attempt to promote sustainable consumption by shaping the conditions for consumption. In particular, the focus lies on sustainable public catering as an approach to shaping both the supply of and demand for sustainable meals. In order to capture the processes of governing consumption, the way is traced in which rationalities (ways of thinking and calculating), technologies (means and instruments), visibilities (concrete manifestations), and identities (types of agents assumed) related to a policy intervention for sustainable public catering are interpreted and recreated by three main groups of actors involved: policy makers, catering professionals, and consumers. This analysis highlights the active role of practitioners in realizing policies for sustainable consumption. It has implications for policy makers and analysts: Reflexive policies should heed to actors' unfolding interpretations as they can take the policy process in different directions.During the past decades, sustainable development has emerged as an issue on the political agenda, and consumption patterns have gained prominence in the discussion on sustainable development. As early as in 1987, the report Our common future defined sustainable development as "development that meets the needs of the present without comprising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" (World Commission on Environment J Consum Policy (2012) 35:7-21

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Section: Empirical Context Data and Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Endorsing Sustainable Food Consumption: Prospects from Public Catering

2011

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“…So far, the impact of the FLO on the world trade regime has been of marginal nature, which can partly be explained by the different conceptions of fairness in the WTO and the FLO regimes and the general opposition between "fair trade" and "free trade". However, on a national level the FLO has an increasing influence on public procurement policies in European countries (Calabro 2007;Day 2005;Parikka-Alhola 2008). Additionally, by standard setting the FLO influences other non-state sustainability initiatives, e.g., in the coffee sector.…”

Section: Regulative-normative Effectsmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…As a consequence, a large number of governmental and non-governmental guides to sustainable consumption, for example in Germany, refer to the information given on product labels. Additionally, labels play an important role in the greater consideration of sustainability in public procurement (Calabro 2007;Day 2005;Parikka-Alhola 2008). Since sustainabilityrelated labels established by non-state actors enjoy financial and moral support from the political level (Wilkinson 2007), they can be considered as an important instrument for promoting sustainable consumption.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing the Effects of Certification Networks on Sustainable Production and Consumption: The Cases of FLO and FSC

2011

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“…This indicates that the networks of importance for green procurements consist of both private and professional networks. The purchasers from the private sectors have the possibility of asking directly for eco-labelled products when procuring; as opposed to public purchasers who, due to market regulation, cannot demand eco-labelled products but need to apply the specific labelling requirements in the tendering process (Day, 2005).…”

Section: Non-product-related Green Procurementmentioning

confidence: 99%