Climate Accounting in Public Procurement: Status in the Nordic Countries
Year: 2022
Type: report
Abstract: Preface Climate change is probably mankind’s most serious challenge. Public procurement represents about 16% of gross national product in the Nordic countries and must therefore take an active role in meeting the challenge. Unfortunately, decision making is hampered because the data on the climate effect of products is often unclear, not comparable, or unavailable. The EK-MK Committee of the Nordic Council of Ministers has therefore funded a project which looks at how to make public procurement more circular and climate friendly. One of the goals of this project is to improve the quality, consistency, and availability of product related carbon footprint information. In the first phase of this project an expert group from Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark has mapped the state of the art in these countries, as well as relevant international activities. The main conclusions were that there was a significant need for harmonising carbon footprint data and that a Nordic perspective was relevant. The preliminary report was presented and discussed during a workshop (23/3-2022) with wide representation from different relevant organisations from the countries. The response was positive, regarding both contents and timing, expressing the need for moving this topic forward quickly. We have therefore the pleasure of publishing this report as a basis for further work. The next phase of the project will establish pilot projects where contracting authorities, suppliers, and data management suppliers can collaborate to get the harmonised carbon footprint data efficiently into procurement processes and thereby help in decreasing the climate emissions related to the public procurement. Oslo, 23.06.2022 Helene Hoggen Senior Advisor at The Norwegian Agency for Public and Financial Management (DFØ) and Project Manager, “Circular and Climate Friendly Public Procurements”
Source: Työväentutkimus Vuosikirja
Language: English
Subfield: Strategy and Management
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Climate action
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7200260574