Through their vast purchasing, governments have the power to shift the market towards sustainability and eco-innovation as well as to deliver environmental goals.
The Asia Pacific Green Public Procurement (GPP) Network project, funded by and co-led with Korea Environmental Industry & Technology Institute, aims at enhancing GPP knowledge-sharing and networking in the Asia Pacific region, with a view to stimulate markets for eco-friendly products and services.
The Asia Pacific GPP Network builds on the experience of two past projects: the 'Asia Pacific Green Public Procurement and Ecolabelling Network' (2013-2016) and KEITI-led 'Asia Pacific Green Public Procurement Partnership project' (2017-2019), which paved the way for GPP development in the region, and confirmed the strong interest for capacity-building in GPP policy-making and implementation.
Objectives
The Asia Pacific GPP Network’s main objectives are to:
- Serve as an information platform for Green Public Procurement among the relevant governments, public organisations and stakeholders in the Asia-Pacific region.
- Promote awareness and build capacity of policy makers.
- Support and amplify the work of the One Planet SPP Programme in the Asia-Pacific region.
- Identify concrete needs of the countries for the introduction and implementation of Green Public Procurement.
Activities
- Knowledge sharing through:
- Webinars (videos and speakers' presentations can be accessed from the links below):
- Webinar session #1: GPP implementation in China and in the Philippines, 26 May 2021
- Webinar session #2: GPP implementation in the Republic of Korea, 27 July 2021
- Webinar session #3: Introduction to Sustainable Infrastructure, 28 September 2021
- Webinar session #4: GPP implementation in Cambodia and Sri Lanka, 26 October 2021
- Webinar session #5: UNEP United-for-Efficiency's GPP Technical Guidelines for Energy-Efficient Lighting, 30 November 2021
- Webinar session #6: Green Public Procurement of Energy-Efficient Cooling Appliances, 24 March 2022.
- Webinar session #7: Measuring the Impact of GPP, 07 June 2022
- Webinar session #8: Green Public Procurement of ICT, 29 June 2022
- Country fact sheets, and case studies;
- The Asia Pacific GPP Network group on LinkedIn.
- Webinars (videos and speakers' presentations can be accessed from the links below):
- Capacity building through online training sessions and, (if the sanitary context allows it) in-person sessions;
- Monitoring the progress of GPP in the Asia-Pacific region through the development of national factsheets (to be used for the 2022 Global Review of SPP) and assistance in the measurement of SDG 12.7.1;
- Support to the GPP Plus project led by KEITI and to the One Planet SPP Programme activities.
Interested? Join us and take an active part in the Asia Pacific GPP Network
Membership is voluntary, cost-free and unlimited in duration, and is open to organizations or individuals in the Asia Pacific region interested in contributing to the progress of GPP in Asia Pacific,
The application form may be found here.
Partnerships
The Network activities will be aligned and synergized with the actions of the One Planet SPP Network, which will entail the publication of country factsheets presenting details of GPP implementation status in more than 40 countries.
Partnerships and cooperation have also been established with the South Asia Co-operative Environment Programme (SACEP), and with the International Green Purchasing Network, to synergize regional efforts in the area of GPP.
State of GPP implementation in Asia and the Pacific
Below are additional resources which have been published regarding the state of GPP or SCP implementation in the Asia-Pacific region:
- Green Public Procurement in the Republic of Korea: A Decade of Progress and Lessons Learned (2019)
- Vietnam, National Action Plan on Sustainable Consumption and Production 2021-2030 (2020)
- Republic of Korea, SPP tender implementation and impact monitoring in Suwon (2018)
- Asia-Pacific Green Public Procurement Partnership Project in Thailand: Recommendations for GPP Incentive Mechanisms (2019)
- Asia-Pacific Green Public Procurement Partnership Project in Viet Nam: Final Report (2018)
- Mongolia, Sustainable Public Procurement Action Plan (2017)
- Thailand, Twelfth National Economic and Social Development Plan 2017-2021 (2017)
- Thailand, Sustainable Consumption and Production Roadmap (2017)
- Comparative Analysis of Green Public Procurement and Ecolabelling in China, Japan, Thailand and the Republic of Korea: Lessons Learned and Common Success Factors (2017)
- A Sampling of Successes in Green Public Procurement: Case Studies of Green Public Procurement Implementation in Asia-Pacific Countries (2017)
- 2017 Global Review of Sustainable Public Procurement (2017)
- Factsheets on Sustainable Public Procurement in National Governments (2017)
Find out more in the One Planet Network resource database.
