New partnerships between governments, private companies, and nongovernmental
organizations (NGOs) are reshaping global environmental governance. In particular, there …

The environmental certification acts as a sustainable practice for firms to improve their
competitive advantage and its motivation has been widely discussed. However, existing …

Green Public Procurement (GPP) became an efficient instrument to achieve the objectives of
environmental policy expressed by the European Commission in its Communications. At the …

The objective of this paper is to investigate the determinants of the adoption of green public
procurement (GPP) practices at the local authority level. A conceptual contribution of the …

Green public procurement can play an important role in reducing the environmental impact
of societies. While its uptake is continuously growing, barriers to its use still remain. One …

Green public procurement is considered an environmental policy tool with great potential.
Having been charged with the responsibility of transforming greenness into a shared social …

Building on the policy debate about the effectiveness of the public sector in spurring
environmental innovation, the present paper investigates whether and to what extent firms …

In order to facilitate the adoption of green requirements in public procurement, European
Commission has developed the Green Public Procurement (GPP) criteria for various …

The COVID-19 pandemic posed various challenges to governments around the globe. One
of them has been keeping green actions towards a better environment. The impact of the …

The greening building and construction (B&C) sector is an emerging research topic in the
energy and environment field. Employing China's provincial panel data during 2008–2017 …