Sustainable public procurement and the European Green Deal- New BHRE Brief

On 1 December 2021, Professor Olga Martin-Ortega appeared as an expret before the European Parliament in its Public Hearing on ‘Sustainable public procurement: using the full potential of public buying to achieve goals of the European Green Deal’.. The Hearing was organised by the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection in association with Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and chaired by MEPs Anna Cavazzini (IMCO Chair) and Pascal Canfin (ENVI Chair). The video of the hearing, as well as the presentations of the speakers at the IMCO website. Dr. Marta Andhov, also a member of the SAPIENS Network, provided evidence in the same panel.

Following her intervention we have prepared a Policy Brief: Sustainable public procurement: Strengthening the social and human rights dimensions of SPP in the framework of the European Green Deal (BHRE Research Series. Policy Brief 1. December 2021). This Brief focuses on the link between sustainable public procurement and human rights in the context of the social and external dimensions of the Green Deal. It provides insights and recommendations to strengthen sustainable procurement’s role as a powerful tool for achieving the European Green Deal’s goals both in and outside the EU borders. Access the Brief here and in our Resources page.