Integrating criteria for chemicals, climate and circularity in procurement processes
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PROGRAMME 2021-2027
priority
3 Climate-neutral societies
objective
3.1 Circular economy
Project type
Implementation
October 2022 - September 2024

ChemClimCircle

The project ChemClimCircle equips municipalities with training modules to apply circular procurement and, by this, to use non-toxic and climate-neutral products.
Project summary

European municipalities procure services and goods on a large scale, as they are responsible for various public facilities in the fields of child and elderly care, construction, education, or traffic. For this reason, they have great potential to use the procurement process to achieve environmental goals. Green Public Procurement (GPP) can stimulate demand for more sustainable services and goods, thus promoting a regenerative circular economy and helping to support a toxic-free environment. Another benefit: financial savings for the public sector can also be achieved when the purchasing patterns are investigated more thoroughly.

On a positive note, several municipalities in the European Union have already started to develop Green Public Procurement (GPP) schemes. However, many of them are still in the early stages of this process and face various challenges, ranging from a lack of management support to a lack of knowledge in the organisation – concerning everything from market dialogues and requirements in the municipal units to selection of criteria and follow up processes. One of the greatest difficulties is the lack of a holistic approach: procurement managers often focus on individual goals such as climate neutrality or circularity while the topic of avoiding hazardous substances in the procured services and goods often recieve too little attention.

And this is exactly where ChemClimCircle comes in: It combines the topics of chemicals, climate and circularity and provides supportive material for municipalities to further develop their procurement strategy. The solution is to consider all three aspects already in the planning phase of a procurement and to create an organisational structure that makes it possible to include more than just one sustainability goal in the procurement process.

Specifically, the ChemClimCircle approach provides soultions for inclusion of sustainability aspects on the following levels:

• Strategic level – an overarching strategy which needs to include goals for the specific organisation set on political level, that supports the application of inclusive procurement criteria.
• Operational level – procurement process structure and sustainability coordination in the municipality as implementation of political goals, and setting the strategy for the organisation.
• Procurement level – the ChemClimCircle approach provides a matrix for prioritizations of a procurement practices connected to sustainability aspects that incorporates tox-free, climate-neutral, and circular criteria into the process.

The City of Stockholm acted as a forerunner in the project since it has both a Chemicals centre, a Centre for circularity and climate experts at The Environment and Health Department, involving and integrating these expert functions was a success factor in the implementation of the ChemClimCircle approach in procurement processes. Thanks to the Interreg support, the ChemClimCircle approach was elaborated during this small project, both locally within all partner municipality organisations as well as discussed and developed together with the other project partners and associated organisations. The ChemClimCircle Guidance and Training material, Process structure, Sustainability coordination and Roadmap can now be used effectively and implemented in organisations beyond the project, and provides a clear way of spreading the message of the ChemClimCircle approach.

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ChemClimCircle
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ChemClimCircle Project Finalization
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Project partners

Lead partnerCity of Stockholm
  • Town
    Stockholm
  • Region
  • Country
    Sweden
  • Region
    Stockholms län
Total partner budget
140,000.00
BEF Germany
  • Town
    Hamburg
  • Region
  • Country
    Germany
  • Region
    Hamburg
Total partner budget
142,898.00
Stockholm Environment Institute Tallinn Centre
  • Town
    Tallinn
  • Region
  • Country
    Estonia
  • Region
    Põhja-Eesti
Total partner budget
40,600.00
Taurage municipality
  • Town
    Taurage
  • Region
  • Country
    Lithuania
  • Region
    Tauragės apskritis
Total partner budget
20,244.00
Ecodesign Competence Centre
  • Town
    Rīga
  • Region
  • Country
    Latvia
  • Region
    Rīga
Total partner budget
38,640.00
Environmental Centre for Administration and Technology (ECAT)
  • Town
    Kaunas
  • Region
  • Country
    Lithuania
  • Region
    Kauno apskritis
Total partner budget
32,718.00
Turku University of Applied Sciences
  • Town
    Turku
  • Region
  • Country
    Finland
  • Region
    Varsinais-Suomi
Total partner budget
40,320.00
Smiltene municipality
  • Town
    Smiltene
  • Region
  • Country
    Latvia
  • Region
    Vidzeme
Total partner budget
26,880.00
POMINNO Ltd.
  • Town
    Gdynia
  • Region
  • Country
    Poland
  • Region
    Trójmiejski
Total partner budget
17,640.00

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    16
    September
    Final event on 16 September 2024
    Project: ChemClimCircle
    Virtual Meeting
    16. September 2024
    11:00 - 13:00 (CET)
    15-16
    May
    Consortium meeting in Stockholm
    Project: ChemClimCircle
    Physical Meeting
    15. - 16. May 2024
    13-14
    March
    Procura+ Conference
    Project: ChemClimCircle
    Physical Meeting
    13. - 14. March 2024
    18
    December
    ChemClimCircle: Procurement cases in the Swedish central purchasing body Adda
    Project: ChemClimCircle
    Virtual Meeting
    18. December 2023
    11:00 - 13:00 (CET)
    16
    November
    Green Governance Conference on Green Public Procurement
    Project: ChemClimCircle
    Physical Meeting
    16. November 2023
    09:00 - 17:30 (EET)
    18
    September
    ChemClimCircle: Sustainable procurement in the City of Västerås and the municipality of Taurage
    Project: ChemClimCircle
    Virtual Meeting
    18. September 2023
    11:00 - 13:00 (CET)
    22
    May
    ChemClimCircle: Procurement Organisation in Tallinn and Smiltene
    Project: ChemClimCircle
    Virtual Meeting
    22. May 2023
    11:00 - 13:00 (CET)
    17
    April
    ChemClimCircle: Sustainable Procurement in the City of Helsinki & Public Procurement Green Deals in Finland
    Project: ChemClimCircle
    Virtual Meeting
    17. April 2023
    11:00 - 13:00 (CET)
    13
    March
    ChemClimCircle: Purchasing power as a means to reach the goal of a tox-free Stockholm
    Project: ChemClimCircle
    Virtual Meeting
    13. March 2023
    11:00 - 13:00 (CET)
    13
    February
    ChemClimCircle: Sustainability, Circular economy and Climate economics
    Project: ChemClimCircle
    Virtual Meeting
    13. February 2023
    11:00 - 13:00 (CET)

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