110 likes | 266 Views
Cremona, 7 October 2010 REGIONAL NETWORK FOR GPP IN CATALONIA Albert Carreras, Ecoinstitut Barcelona. Where are we?. Province of Barcelona. Catalonia. Barcelona city!. Network for GPP in Catalonia. Diputació de Barcelona (Barcelona Provincial Council).
E N D
Cremona, 7 October 2010 REGIONAL NETWORK FOR GPP IN CATALONIA Albert Carreras, Ecoinstitut Barcelona
Where are we? Province of Barcelona Catalonia Barcelona city!
Network for GPP in Catalonia Diputació de Barcelona (Barcelona Provincial Council) Xarxa de Ciutats i Pobles cap a la Sostenibilitat (Network of Cities and Towns towards Sustainability) 250 members 24% of Catalan municipalities 66% of municipalities in the province of Barcelona Working group on Responsible Consumption and Sustainable Economy 35 members GPPinfoNET project
GPPinfoNET: Current results • Adhered administrations (12) • Els Pallaresos City Council • Granollers City Council • Hospitalet de Llobregat City Council • Manlleu City Council • Mataró City Council • Sabadell City Council • Sant Cugat City Council • Sant Just Desvern City Council • Terrassa City Council • Reus City Council • DIBA (Barcelona Provincial Council) • EMMA (Environmental Department of Greater Barcelona) GPPinfoNET project adhesion + GPPinfoNET political adhesion To guarantee participation with political / formal support
GPPinfoNET: Work in progress 1st working session _ Deciding working group dynamics, products of interest… 2nd working sesion _ 2 product working groups 25 participants (92% from adhered Administrations) • Paper-based products • Environmental technicians • GPP & Greenhouse gases – Waste production: • Environmental impacts • Communication issues • - Impacts calculator • - Examples of communication / promotion actions • Office furniture • People in charge of procurement • GPP & Ecolabels – LCA - Criteria in procurement: • Procurement discussion • Documentation workshop • - Furniture criteria summary • - Tenders • - Catalogues Products Main targets Thematic discussion groups CO2 !! Tools
GPP and Climate change PREMISE: CO2 limited indicator GPP benefits can be measured by others! CO2 in GPPinfoNET working sessions Products: PAPER – BASED PRODUCTS URBAN VEHICLES Tools: IMPACTS CALCULATORS DEVELOPED (EXCEL) Productionphase Use phase LCA vision applied
GPP and Climate change • CO2 in GPPinfoNET working sessions • PAPER – BASED PRODUCTS • Impacts calculator allows: • to know the real impact associated to our consumptions • to compare CO2 emissions between non / recycled paper – based products • to compare raw material consumptions between non / recycled paper – based products • to know impacts associated to different scenes: • % recycling paper purchased • % increasing / decreasing consumption Data input Data output Scenes "Initiative Pro Recyclingpapier", sustainability calculator (6/2010)
GPP and Climate change • CO2 in GPPinfoNET working sessions • URBAN VEHICLES • Impacts calculator will allow: • to compare consumptions / CO2 emissions between non / efficient urban vehicles in the same conditions (km) • to associate electric cars consumptions to photovoltaic panels production • to know potential CO2 savings
GPP and Climate change CO2 in GPPinfoNET working sessions URBAN VEHICLES CO2 emissions http://www.idae.es/Coches
GPPinfoNET: a necessary boost • GPPinfoNET project allows to the Network of Cities and Towns towards Sustainability: • To recover and drive an existing working group and • To create and consolidate working group dynamics • 2 groups / 2 products / 2 approaches / tools, workshops, thematic discussions… • Tendering experiences return information protocol. • Keenly aim: tendering experiences database. • To seat specific goals GPPinfoNET is an opportunity to prioritizetheGreenPublicProcurementwithinthe Network activity, andpromoteitactivelyin theCatalanPublicadministration.
More information… www.ecoinstitut.es ecoinstitut@ecoinstitut.es www.diba.cat/xarxasost xarxasost@diba.cat (+34) 93 348 1386 (+34) 93 436 1094 (+34) 93 402 2222 Torre dels Pardals 69, ent4 08032 Barcelona Urgell 187 0803 Barcelona Leader Technical secretary