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Using Government Procurement to Support Innovation

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Resource Private Entities

Model Green Supplier Agreement Terms

The Chancery Lane Project, a collaborative effort of UK lawyers to develop new contracts and model laws to help fight climate change, has published a model green procurement checklist and clause to ma...

Resource Private Entities

Model Termination for Greener Supplier Clause

The Chancery Lane Project, a collaborative effort of UK lawyers to develop new contracts and model laws to help fight climate change, has published a model standard clause in merchant-customer contrac...

Resource Private Entities

Model Green Termination Provision

The Chancery Lane Project, a collaborative effort of UK lawyers to develop new contracts and model laws to help fight climate change, has published a model standard clause in merchant-customer contrac...

Resource Private Entities

Model Clause on Supplier Environmental Threshold Obligations

The Chancery Lane Project, a collaborative effort of UK lawyers to develop new contracts and model laws to help fight climate change, has published a model clause setting legally enforceable environme...

Example Congress

Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Program

The federal government has operated an Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Program for several decades under the 1990 Pollution Prevention Act, which focuses federal procurement programs on clean te...

Resource Foreign

OECD report, The Role of Public Procurement in Low-carbon Innovation

The OECD’s 2016 report, The Role of Public Procurement in Low-carbon Innovation, argues that a number of practical solutions can make green procurement more effective for low-carbon innovation, includ...

Resource Foreign

IISD report, Procurement, Innovation, and Growth

The International Institute for Sustainable Development’s 2012 report, Procurement, Innovation, and Growth, contends that public procurement serves as a key policy tool for governments to act as a mar...

Example Executive Branch

EO 13693

In 2015, Executive Order 13693 put in place specific sustainability and energy efficiency goals in federal purchasing decisions. It was revoked in 2018 by EO 13834.