About Green purchasing
Good, green procurement shapes the supplier market, and thus also our footprint on climate, environment and human life
The EU, regulatory authorities, environmental organizations, and the business community all highlight green purchasing as a crucial instrument for advancing the green transition. This applies broadly across sectors such as retail, services, energy, and transport, in both public and private contexts.
Green purchasing reduces CO₂ emissions while increasing the focus on, and demand for, sustainable goods and services. In doing so, it strengthens the green competitiveness of Norwegian businesses. Improved purchasing practices can therefore have a significant impact on emissions both nationally and internationally.
To address this challenge, Skift and several of its members have created 10 guiding principles for green purchasing. These serve as an ambitious framework for enterprises of all kinds to aspire to.
Sign and discuss
We encourage managers to sign, discuss and operationalise the principles in their enterprises, both public and private, in order to build competitiveness and give momentum to the development of good purchasing practices.
In Norway, close to NOK 600 billion is spent annually on public procurements alone, in addition to significant purchases by the business community. These purchases can stimulate the development of green, forward-looking solutions.
The business community and the public sector possess the means of imposing requirements in their purchasing activities, and of delivering when requirements are imposed by other purchasers.