An update on recent activities from the 10YFP Sustainable Public Procurement working group. The 10YFP Programme on SPP further amplifies and extends the impact of the Sustainable Public Procurement Initiative (SPPI), which was launched in June 2012 at the Rio+20 Conference (www.sppinitiave.org). It mainly aims at building the case for SPP and supporting the implementation of SPP. Dr. Mervyn Jones, Sustainable Global Resources

1. Working Group 4c
"Promoting Resource
Efficient Business Models
and Circular Economy"
Mervyn Jones - Sustainable Global Resources, UK

2. Objectives
SPP aims :
1. Building the case for SPP: improving the knowledge on SPP as a
tool to promote sustainable consumption and production,
support greener economies and sustainable development.
2. Supporting the implementation of SPP on the ground through
increased collaboration, and better access to capacity-building
tools and support through SPP experts.
Sustainable Public Procurement
Programme

3.  Broader approach required and broader opportunities
to use SPP to deliver circular economy benefits
1. to integrate innovative, circular resource efficient
business models in Sustainable Public Procurement by
through a participative framework that uses SP
practices to deliver more circular economies.
2. to develop a longer term goal of providing leadership in
sustainable procurement (SP) through an active forum
that enables cross-over of circular economy, resource
efficient business models and SP initiatives, ideas and
research.
WG4c objective

4. Working Group 3A: Integrating Product-Service
Systems in Sustainable Public Procurement
Key lessons from the WG:
 When properly assessed and employed, Product Service
Systems can potentially provide commercially viable and
environmentally beneficial alternatives to linear models of
procurement, consumption and disposal.
Key outputs from the WG:
• Technical Report: Using Product-Service Systems to Enhance Sustainable
Public Procurement
http://www.unep.org/10yfp/Portals/50150/10YFP%20SPP/3A_Technical
%20report.pdf
• Webinar: Integrating Product Service Systems into Sustainable Public
Procurement http://www.scpclearinghouse.org/e-library-all-13-1-AA-all-
all-1.html
Background

5. • Addressing 10YFP SPP aims:
◦ Focussing on implementation
◦ Widening scope for participation
◦ Interactive ‘needs led’ activities
• Developing and piloting implementation
support package with pioneer City Councils
e.g. Barcelona & Torino
• Rolling out 3 phase approach to other willing
participants
Working 4c Group elements

6. Circular Procurement training package:
 1st international Circular Procurement Congress
 Circular Procurement Introductory Flyer
 CP workshop 1 hour taster session
 Module 1 – online primer for Circular Procurement and
PSS
 Module 2 – Level 1 ½ day Policymakers workshop
 Module 3 – Level 2 1 day practitioners’ workshop
Working group activities

7. E-learning primer:
 Circular economy
 Circular Procurement
 Lessons learnt
 Case Studies
 Fleet
 Medical
 Furniture
 Construction
E-module

8. Flyer
xx-xx
awareness
E-module
Level 1 -
Prioritisation
workshop
Level 2 - Implementation
workshop
Level 3 - Tool box – guidance,
exemplars, metrics
CP Pilots & case studies
PolicymakersPractitioners
Developing countries
Interested parties
Working Group &
first movers
UNEP stakeholders:
Information Hierarchy &10YFP Working Group

9. Next steps…
Circular economy interest group

10. Thank you
Mervyn Jones
Sustainable Global Resources, UK
mervyn@sustainableglobalresources.co.uk