UK
06/03/2007 17:00
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The government is implementing a new procurement plan to improve carbon efficiency and offer sustainable development prospects.
Plans have been offered in response to the recent Transforming Government Procedure report, which highlighted procurement concerns in public sector procurement procedures.
Defra's new action plan creates clearer guidelines to help procurement officers to raise the standards and status of their procurement package.
Accountability and reporting will now become more transparent, with the publishing of compulsory environmental product standards.
This drive should promote the purchasing of sustainable products at all levels of government across the country.
Environment secretary David Miliband said: "The government accepts the task force's challenge to use its immense buying power to make rapid progress towards our goals to move to a low carbon economy."
"Procurement is key in tackling climate change and as a government we must do more and practise what we preach in terms of tackling climate change," he continued.
And the financial secretary to the Treasury John Healey explained that over the next decade, the government would continue its search for innovative procurement methods.
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