Green Public Procurement - Public Affairs Ireland

Green Public Procurement – Online Seminar

1-Day Online Programme
9.30am – 4.30pm

Method of Delivery: Online

About the seminar

Public procurement is a powerful market force, with an estimated spend of €1.8trillion across the EU accounting for 14% of EU GPP, in Ireland public procurement accounts for 10-12% of GDP.

Green Public Procurement offers public bodies the means to lead sustainable development in their sector, educating suppliers to reduce the environmental impacts across their product and service life cycles; developing the circular economy.

The Climate Action Plan requires every public body to have a climate mandate: With many public bodies already leading by example in energy efficiency; green procurement is a way to further reduce emissions and deliver on the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Goals for participants

Join public networks and participate in the continual improvement of resource efficiency action plans, energy and environmental management systems
Measurably reduce environmental impacts using EU Green Public Procurement Guidelines
Secure funding where available towards your organisation’s purchases

Practical

Spreadsheet templates provided to allow participants generate a working template for one aspect of their procurement e.g. transport services

On completion participants will be able to:

Review their organisations’ environmental impacts at a high level
Focus on areas of significance
Research the market, identify suitable criteria
Apply EU GPP Guidelines to scoring and specification
EPA Green Public Procurement Guidelines for the Public Sector
Measure the impacts, to continually improve
Create their own templates for green public procurement

Testimonials

“Good starting point to learn about Green Procurement – very good examples.”

Mary Brophy – Bord na Mona

“An introduction to GPP in Ireland and Europe and where we currently are with it. Focused on how to fold GPP into general procurement practices.”

Maggie Semple – Houses of the Oireachtas

Course Tutor

Conor Molloy participated in WG2.6 Working Group 2.6 to review and update some of the EU Green Public Procurement (GPP) guidelines 2017-18. He is an independent energy advisor with an MSc in Energy Management and Renewable energy from University of Ulster, he is a Certified Energy Manager (CEM), Measurement & Verification professional (CMVP) and trainer for ISO50001. He has trained over 200 ESOS Lead Assessors in Transport Energy Auditing, led the publication of EN 16247-4 Europe’s transport energy audit standard and contributed to ISO50004.Since 2005, Conor has been helping business save fuel and manage their energy use for profit and reduced emissions. Accepted as a member of the Association of Energy Engineers, CILT, FTAI, IMCA and EVO. He is a registered lead ESOS assessor (UK) and registered energy auditor (Ireland).

How to Book

If you would like further information about having this course run online and ‘in-house’ for your team, email inhousetraining@pai.ie