What is sustainable procurement – and how best should you go about it? Generally, when someone talks of sustainable procurement, they talk of ‘how businesses can identify and reduce the environmental impacts of their supply chains’, per the Oxford College of Procurement and Supply, as well as ‘integrating specifications, requirements and criteria’ into a company’s procurement processes and decisions ‘that are compatible with the protection of the environment and society as a whole’, per the definition from EcoVadis. More specifically, this can involve integrating CSR (corporate social responsibility) principles or ESG (environmental, social and governance) goals into your company’s procurement,…
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