ECO-PROCUREMENT
April 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLA EUROPEAN Union report has encouraged local authorities to take more environmental considerations into account in their public procurement programmes - especially for energy - claiming that if every EU public body switched to renewable sources, they would meet 18 per cent of Europe's Kyoto Protocol obligations. It would, it said, equal the greenhouse gas emissions of seven million EU citizens.The data is being used to promote the European Commission's RELIEF project, which is setting guidelines for local authorities on how they should use ...
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