Green public procurement

Procurement can be linked to goods, services and infrastructure. Measures towards a green transformation include conversion to adjustment or development of completely new products and production methods. 

The topic also involve transformation to a more circular economy.This research with focus on the municipality sector discusses the potential and challenges relating to GPP and how ‘successful projects’ can provide a better understanding of how the elements of the GPP process comes together, especially in relation to innovation.  Another topic in this field of research addresses the way public procurement involves circular arrangements to reduce environmental impact through use, reuse, and recycling. However, the study discusses how efficiency measures can lead to unintended consequences that reduce or cancel out motivated environmental benefits by causing so-called rebound effects. Our results demonstrate a multitude of explanations to how and why rebound effects are taking place, but still not taken into the account neither in the procurement decision process or stage of evaluation. This is a collaboration between Grete Rusten and Ingelinn M. Gundersen.