Government responds to business report
The government has launched a sustainable procurement action plan to ensure supply chains and public services meet sustainability targets. The plan, together with the Treasury鈥檚 recent 鈥楾ransforming Government Procurement鈥� report, is the government鈥檚 response to the recent business-led Neville Simms report on sustainability.
Today鈥檚 plan establishes lines of accountability and reporting in a bid to ensure supply chains and public services are increasingly low carbon, low waste and water efficient, and deliver wider sustainable development goals. The government is also publishing a set of mandatory environmental product standards to ensure departments procure the most sustainable commodities.
Environment secretary David Miliband said: 鈥淭he Government accepts the Task Foce鈥檚 challenge to 鈥榰se its immense buying power鈥� to make rapid progress towards our goals to move to a low carbon economy.鈥�
For more details on the plan go to www.zerochampion.com.
