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Innovation: Charting Pathways to Sustainable Mobility
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CO₂-neutral in 2030: Facilicom Group goes for it and obtains certificate
Facilicom Group is a Dutch family business with various subsidiaries under its care. The group, which now has more than 18,000 employees, is active in areas such as cleaning, security, catering, social work and home care. Mapping CO₂ impact In 2017, the family business expressed the ambition to be completely…
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Innovation partnerships stimulates sustainable innovators
The EU and the Dutch government emphasise the importance of sustainable and innovative procurement and their own responsibility in this regard. And rightly so, because the total procurement volume of Dutch public authorities amounted to €85 billion in 2019. At European level that is €2 trillion, divided among 250,000 local…
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New: Procurement Guide 3.1 has been published!
The new publication is good news, for example, for buyers who have never tendered with the CO₂ Performance Ladder, because Guide 3.1 promises practical tools, such as a step-by-step plan and ready-to-use tender texts. But project managers who are ready for the next step in the implementation are also served:…
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Behavioral scientist Reint Jan Renes: ‘Expect resistance when making organisations more sustainable’
What is the role of behavior in making organisations more sustainable? Reint Jan: ‘Technically, a lot is possible with sustainability. However, the success of the climate transition largely depends on our daily choices, our behaviour. If you do not pay attention to these daily choices in your policy and approach,…
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18% of Dutch footprint through government procurement
In 2019, the Dutch government purchased 85 billion euros worth of products and services. This is 15 percent of the total purchase of products and services in the Netherlands. The climate impact of this is 18 percent of the total Dutch climate footprint: that is 22 mega tons of CO₂…
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Supply, install, maintain hot beverage vending machines including ingredients and cups
Rijkswaterstaat has been using the CO2 Performance Ladder for some time in tenders in the civil engineering sector. For several years now, the award instrument has also been used for the hot drinks sector. And not without success: when Rijkswaterstaat asked, the market responded. Johan Moesman, senior procurement advisor at…
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RAW framework agreement for extraordinary maintenance of polder and dyke embankments
It has been a procurement requirement at the Delfland Water Board (Hoogheemraadschap van Delfland, HHvD) to use the CO2 Performance Ladder as an award criterion since 2018, in tenders where this is applicable and proportionate. This also applies to the RAW framework agreement for extraordinary maintenance of polder and dyke…
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