As the European Green Capital 2023, the City of Tallinn has made Green Governance a top priority. The upcoming conference aims to unite cities from the Baltic Sea Region and beyond, fostering the exchange of best practices and discussions on the challenges of transitioning to green governance.
With Green Public Procurement as a central theme, the conference recognizes its vital role in implementing green governance and promoting sustainable consumption and production. Local governments possess significant potential to achieve sustainability goals through their procurement processes, particularly by ensuring they are not just climate-neutral but also circular and free from harmful toxins. During the event, the first-ever NonHazCity Award for tox-free, circular and climate-neutral buildings and building processes at municipalities will be launched.
The event aims to bring together local authorities, business actors and all the other individuals who are interested in green governance topics. It will provide a valuable networking opportunity for Green Cities, facilitating collaboration and mutual learning.
This event is organised by the City of Tallinn, Stockholm Environment Institute Tallinn Centre and Baltic Environmental Forum Estonia and it´s part of the Tallinn Greentech Week programme.
Moderator of the event: Heidrun Fammler, Baltic Environmental Forum
9:00 Opening of the event by Mayor of Tallinn, Mihhail Kõlvart
Keynote: Green Public Procurement – a great policy instrument for achieving Green Governance. How “green” can procurement be? What are the key barriers and biggest potentials? Evelin Piirsalu, Stockholm Environment Institute Tallinn Centre
Presentations by representatives of municipalities from the Baltic Sea region
Best practice examples and ambitions for greening procurement as an effective instrument of Green Governance:
Panel discussion among the speakers:
How can GPP become a routine, not only a best practice example – how to make it a new norm?
13:00–13:15 Launch of the NonHazCity Award for tox-free, circular and climate-neutral buildings and building processes at municipalities.
Mihhail Kõlvart, Mayor of Tallinn and Alexandra Wandel, Chair of World Future Council
13:15–14:30 Lunch
14:30–17:30 The NonHazCity & ChemClimCircle projects‘ public seminar on specific aspects of Green Public Procurement (GPP)
Session 1: Evaluation of GPP implementation impacts
Session 2: Certification and labelling as instruments for procurement decisions (thematic focus: construction materials & buildings)
Summary and conclusions: Martyn Futter, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
17:30 Social networking
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