Greener Public Purchasing as an Environmental Policy Instrument

Donald Marron

OECD Journal on Budgeting, 2004, vol. 3, issue 4, 71-105

Abstract: Governments increasingly include environmental criteria in their purchasing decisions. For example, purchasing guidelines often require that particular products contain a minimum amount of recycled content or achieve specified levels of energy efficiency. Guidelines may also favour – through price preferences, explicit set-asides, or other mechanisms – suppliers who exceed official pollution standards, abide by environmental frameworks...

Date: 2004
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