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The CO2 Performance Ladder was in the spotlight in Ireland recently as part of an event held at the Dutch Embassy in Dublin focusing on Circular and Sustainable Construction in a Dutch-Irish context. Throughout the afternoon, participants…
‘We have had solar panels on our roof for almost 25 years and do a lot in the field of sustainability,’ says Van der Boon. The family business has existed for almost 95 years and today is a renowned systems integrator in electrical engineering, climate installations and ICT. ‘Yet our sustainability…
Why does Handbook 4.0 take a different approach? Gijs: “The current Ladder always asks organisations to at least focus on their own operations (scope 1 and 2), while that is not always where the most CO2 can be reduced. Yet the organisation has to make separate targets for scope 1,…
Hidde Middelweerd Family business Jos Scholman from Nieuwegein has now been active in the infrastructure and green sector for almost 50 years, employing 300 people and with an annual turnover of 40 to 50 million euros. When the contracting company decided several years ago to start working on sustainability, work equipment was logically high on…
Under Handbook 4.0, organisations will work on a ‘climate transition plan’ – a path to zero emissions by 2050 at the latest. They will set feasible interim goals and make an action plan that shows how the goals will be achieved. Handbook 4.0 uses the climate transition plan to focus on CO2 reduction in the short and long term…
The Government of Ireland’s annual public sector purchasing accounts for 10% to 12% of the country’s GDP – and thus has the potential to stimulate the provision of more resource-efficient, less polluting goods, services and works within the marketplace. The CO2 Performance Ladder is a practical instrument that can be…
Our partner, the International Institute for Sustainable Development, has released a new insightful report: ‘Monitoring Progress in Green Public Procurement’. The report is developed as part of SKAO’s ongoing collaboration with IISD in the project ‘Accelerating decarbonisation through the power of procurement by disseminating the CO₂ Performance Ladder: implementation…
When was it decided that there should be a new handbook? Tijmen kicks off: ‘At the end of 2021, we decided to work concretely towards Handbook 4.0. And even before that, during the development of Handbook 3.1, there were topics we knew we wanted to incorporate into handbook 4.0, such…
Accelerating CO2 reduction through sustainable procurement The project ‘Accelerating decarbonisation through the power of procurement by disseminating the CO2 Performance Ladder: implementation and expansion’ aims to accelerate CO2 reduction in Europe by promoting sustainable procurement through the CO2 Performance Ladder. Research by think tank IISD shows that compared to other…
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