Issues and Challenges in Implementing China’sGreen Public Procurement Program

Abstract

Sustainable development and environmental protection are the themes of the day. One popular policy tool that government uses to promote sustainable development and to protect the environment is green public procurement. Chinese government established its public procurement system in the late 1990s. It has moved to implement green procurement since 2004. In this paper, the authors will first trace the development of Chinese green public procurement program. The authors will then examine the issues involved in its implementation and make suggestions as to how to make green public procurement program more effective. This is one of the first papers examining China's green public procurement program.

Environmental Criteria in the Spanish Public Works Procurement Process

“…Some of these tools are the Environmental Impact Assessment process (EIA), Environmental Management Systems (EMS), Sustainable Building Tools (SBT), Eco-labelling and Green Contracts [4,5,6,7,8,9,10]. …”

“…Construction activities have a significant impact on the environment [ 1 , 2 , 3 ], so it is necessary to develop processes that are more friendly to the environment. Some of these tools are the Environmental Impact Assessment process (EIA), Environmental Management Systems (EMS), Sustainable Building Tools (SBT), Eco-labelling and Green Contracts [ 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 ].…”

“…In public procurement, the definitions employed for green contracts are Green Government Procurement (GGP) [ 27 ] or Eco-procurement [ 10 ], although the more frequently used term is Green Public Procurement (GPP). These terms are defined as “a process whereby public authorities seek to produce goods, services and works with a reduced environmental impact throughout their life cycle when compared to goods, services and works with the same primary function that would otherwise be procured” [ 28 ].…”

Green public procurement and multiple environmental objectives

“…Recently, and as illustrated by the above quotation from the European Commission, public procurement has been highlighted and promoted by politicians as such an instrument. 2 This is an ongoing worldwide trend (see, e.g., Tukker et al 2008;Fischer 2010;Qiao and Wang 2011). In 2014, nearly 84% of the OECD members had developed a national strategy to support public procurement as an environmental policy instrument (OECD 2015).…”

Международный Опыт Применения Экологических Критериев В Государственной Закупочной Практике

“…Однако, обзор литературы по анализу зарубежного опыта управленческих решений в части экологизации экономики и управления «зелеными» государственными закупками показывает, что ряд авторов [17,16,18] придерживаются мнения, что сфера государственных «зеленых» закупок страдает отсутствием единой терминологии, то есть любая страна или объединение стран, организация или финансовый институт могут пользоваться собственной терминологией в сфере «зеленых» закупок. В такой ситуации осложняется поиск и применение общих практик при организации системы государственных закупок» [19].…”