 | Former Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has stated that Government will lead by example in relation to implementing the UK Sustainability Strategy. The UK Government buys £13 billion worth of goods and services each year. For the wider public sector this figure is £125 billion. Government wants to ensure that it spends money sustainably, starting with a commitment to buy cleaner cars and by the new offsetting scheme to reduce the carbon impacts of unavoidable air travel. Every government department will contribute to this strategy and will produce its own action plan by the end of the year (2005) so delivery can be ensured. |
UK Government Sustainable Procurement Action Plan, March 2007 (05/03/2007)Government supply-chains and public services will be increasingly low carbon, low waste, water efficient, respect biodiversity and deliver our wider sustainable development goals. Amongst other environmental aims is by 2020, the Government estate would reduce its total waste arising by 30,000 tonnes and recycle around 65,000 tonnes of waste.
More...Sustainable Development policies of individual Government Departments (06/10/2006)Government has established a framework for sustainable development on the Government estate (FSDGE). Individual Departments have published their own approach to sustainable development on the Estate.
More...Framework for Sustainable Development on the Government Estate (FSDGE) (06/10/2006)All Government Departments have an important contribution to make to sustainable development through their policies and services, but also through support activities that go on daily. Decisions taken in relation to energy, water and waste management, and the goods and services bought, all throw light on the Government's commitment to sustainable development.
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“Eyes of the world” on United Nations climate change conference in Bali (12/12/2007)High level negotiations on climate change effectively start today as 144 ministers and high-level government representatives along with 6 heads of state gather in Bali as part of the United Nations Climate Change Conference -Bali, 2007.
More...Defra smashes its own recycling target (06/12/2007)The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has already exceeded its own recycling target set for 2010.
More...Defra launches sustainable development tools (26/10/2007)London, UK: Defra has launched a package of tools have today to help Government Departments and the wider public sector to integrate Sustainable Development (SD) into everyday working.
More...Standard for offsetting to deliver much needed clarity (18/01/2007)People offsetting their carbon emissions will soon be able to do so with greater clarity and certainty with the development of a voluntary standard for offsetting, released for public consultation today.
More...New £1 billion deal to cut costs and carbon emissions of government vehicles (04/12/2006)Government cars and vans will become cheaper and cleaner over the next four years with a new billion pound deal being signed this week.
More...Government sets example for use of reprocessed materials in capital projects (14/11/2006)Dr Whitehead (Lab) raised questions in the House on the use of re-used and recycled materials in capital procurement projects by Government Departments.
More...DCLG issues a departmental Sustainable Waste Strategy (23/06/2006)The new DCLG Sustainable Waste Strategy relates to the Framework for Sustainable
Development on the Government Estate (FSDGE). The policies within the strategy would meet the requirements of the various targets in the FSDGE including targets D1 to D5.
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