Environmentally Responsible Behavior and Sustainability Policy Adoption in Green Public Procurement

Lăzăroiu, George; Ionescu, Luminiţa; Uță, Cristian; Hurloiu, Iulian; Andronie, Mihai; Dijmărescu, Irina

doi:10.3390/su12052110

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“…In conclusion, given the much needed and publicly made commitments to addressing the urgent environmental and social crises, it is our hope that leaders both champion the integration of sustainability into procurement and allocate the human and financial resources required to enable the integration. We believe that doing so will provide significant benefits to stakeholders, including advancing existing policy objectives around climate change and the SDGs, enabling market transformation by incentivizing change, and enhancing stewardship of taxpayer dollars [14,39].…”

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“…We identified a need to understand the degree of sustainability integration in existing public sector RFPs and conceptualized the research based on discussions and prior research [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]. We specifically and inductively considered a number of factors, including potential to reflect ultimate integration of sustainability, bearing on the supplier selection, relevance across categories being considered, coverage of efforts being undertaken, and potential value for future evaluations.…”

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“…However, organizational leadership style has a positive impact on the likelihood of sustainable procurement practices [11], although there can still be insufficient support for sustainability tools in a trade-off situation [12] and a lack of influence by procurement professionals on the implementation of sustainability [13]. From a legislative framework perspective, green public procurement (GPP) [14] appears to be hindered by the legal institutes already in place [15].…”

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Assessing the Degree of Sustainability Integration in Canadian Public Sector Procurement

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The purpose of this study was to identify the current state of sustainability integration into Canadian government procurement and make recommendations on how to deepen current integration in order to accelerate the advancement of existing sustainability goals. We reviewed 50 publicly available Requests for Proposals (RFPs) issued between 2016 and 2019 and evaluated the significance of sustainability integration and the expanse of considerations using two measurement schemes. Our analysis suggests that sustainability integration into RFPs is currently superficial with limited integration into the evaluation process. We also found that the integration of sustainability was narrow with significant gaps in the breadth of environmental and social impact areas that were considered. As such, we provide insights and recommendations that will enable governments to accelerate the advancement of sustainability through the use of procurement.

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“…By setting strict boundaries for the consumption of resources, a national consciousness toward environmental care can be built. Moreover, France practices toward a CE are worth mentioning; Green public procurement (GPP) encourages customers to the green purchasing behavior, which is less damaging to the environment (Lăzăroiu et al 2020). The zero waste masterplan is beneficial for both consumers and producers.…”

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Circular Economy: a Comparison Between the Case of Singapore and France

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Nowadays, due to the continuous developments in economies, various dilemmas are emerging, including energy demand, waste management, and greenhouse gas emissions (GHE). A promising approach to address these issues is a transition toward a circular economy (CE), and one of its successful approaches is the waste-to-energy (WTE). By exploiting WTE, there will be less demand for raw materials and resources. In this study, two developed countries, including France and Singapore, are evaluated based on their CE transition using the WTE method. Both countries are developing rapidly in terms of a successful CE. Reducing landfills as the major problem in Singapore is one of the most vital plans in their CE project. The planned target in Singapore is reducing landfill by 30% by 2030. Furthermore, Singapore aims for reaching a 70% recycling rate by 2050. On the other hand, the CE in France includes more comprehensive laws in four different sectors, such as production, consumption, waste management, and mobilizing actors. It is planned that by 2025, the recycling rate in France will reach 100%. A roadmap toward building a CE cannot be succeeded unless some practical strategies are developed for overcoming the encountered obstacles. The roadmap of both countries shows a specific milestone to reach a better CE, cleaner environment, and less use of natural resources. Most of the Singapore sustainable plans are planned to be caught by 2030, while France is trying to complete them by 2025. It should be noted that due to the current pandemic situation caused by COVID-19, there are some issues in implementing the obligations and plans thoroughly.

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“…First, among the current purchasing policies, the most salient purchasing practice that seems to foster the adoption of green purchasing policy is the use of citywide purchase contracts to reduce costs. Such contracts seek to achieve economies of scale in purchasing by unifying municipal purchases in such purchase contracts [70]. So, municipalities that use purchase contracts to unify purchasing across the municipality to reduce costs are more likely to adopt green purchasing policies.…”

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Municipal Green Purchasing in Mexico: Policy Adoption and Implementation Success

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In this paper, we seek to determine what factors drive the adoption of green purchasing among municipalities in Mexico and the success of their implementation. Given the lack of research and theory in the area, this study is exploratory in nature. We applied the green purchasing survey developed by Arizona State University to all municipalities in Mexico with a population of 25,000 or more inhabitants. Using the least absolute shrinkage and selector operator method (LASSO), we reduced the set of measures, which we then employed in a logistic regression to predict whether the municipality would adopt a green purchasing policy. We found that complementary environmental practices, department rules, and city-wide contracts to reduce purchasing costs have a positive and significant effect on the propensity to adopt green purchasing policies, but the time for routine low-cost purchases has a negative effect on green purchasing policy adoption. Then, using two-stage least squares, we developed a model of the factors leading to successful implementation of green purchasing. We found that complementary environmental policies, environmental practices, environmental program knowledge, and city-wide contracts to reduce purchasing costs are positively and significantly related to successful implementation. However, department resources and the time for routine low-cost purchase are significant, but negatively related.

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Environmentally Responsible Behavior and Sustainability Policy Adoption in Green Public Procurement

Cited by 101 publications

References 74 publications

Assessing the Degree of Sustainability Integration in Canadian Public Sector Procurement

Assessing the Degree of Sustainability Integration in Canadian Public Sector Procurement

Circular Economy: a Comparison Between the Case of Singapore and France

Municipal Green Purchasing in Mexico: Policy Adoption and Implementation Success

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