How will we compare and improve green public procurement and Carbon Net Zero policy implementation at different levels of government around the world?
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At this special hybrid session the Oxford Procurement of Government Outcomes Club (Oxford POGO Club) will examine opportunities and challenges to Green Public Procurement across levels of government and around the world.
Session overview
This special hybrid session of the Oxford Pogo Club examined opportunities and challenges to Green Public Procurement across levels of government and around the world. The session featured insights from a diverse group of academics and practitioners who came together for the first SPARKS Net Zero Symposium. Our speakers shared their thoughts on whether or how we might be able to observe, compare, and share knowledge about Net Zero policy implementation through government contracting around the world and at different levels of government.
Invited discussants included:
- Anne Davies (Chair)
- Andre Carlos Busanelli de Aquino (Brazil)
- Andy Bogie (Ireland)
- Fabiola Isabel Schneider (Ireland)
- Italo Manuel Casaccia Torres (Paraguay)
- Jon Emmett (UK)
- Nicolas Penagos (OECD)
- Oscar Hernandez (OCP)
- Saul Alexander Roux (South Africa)
- Sope Williams (South Africa)
- Tom Hale (UK)
- Vera Monteiro (Brazil)
The Oxford Procurement of Government Outcomes Club (Oxford POGO Club) is a knowledge sharing initiative that is open to anyone interested in capacity building in public procurement and in collaboration to improve social outcomes. We host monthly calls, maintain a maillist, and share other resources. Participants come from many different disciplines, sectors, and countries. This Oxford POGO Club session is part of a new program called Sustainable Procurement Applied Research and Knowledge Sharing (SPARKS) with funding from the Oxford John Fell Fund and Oxford Policy Engagement Network.
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