The goods and services purchased by governments make up a significant share of our economies. When governments wield this spending power strategically, it has the potential to drive policy change and to shift markets. Green public procurement (GPP) policies incentivize economy-wide decarbonization by helping low-carbon products become the default option in the marketplace.
This report analyzes the status of GPP for construction materials (also known as “Buy Clean”) in Germany, Canada, and the United States. These three large industrial economies are among the world’s frontrunners when it comes to decarbonization, but also each have a federal governance structure that presents challenges to effective procurement policy implementation.
The above excerpt was originally published in Clean Energy Canada.
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