Sustainable Public Procurement UNEP – Marrakech Process
{"Image DocumentName": "Sustainable Public Procurement UNEP \u2013 Marrakech Process", "Image ImageDescription": "Source: United Nations, UNEP The Marrakech Process is a global process to support the elaboration of a 10-Year Framework of Programmes (10YFP) on sustainable consumption and production, as called for by the WSSD Johannesburg Plan of Action (2002) In the book The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman writes that the supply chain involved in the production of his Dell notebook PC (an Inspiron, like the one I am using to write now) involved about four hundred companies in North America, Europe, and primarily Asia, but with thirty key players. For the US market alone, Six days a week Dell charters a China Airlines 747 out of Taiwan with twenty-five thousand Dell notebooks that weigh altogether 110,000 kilogrammes (Friedman, T. 2005). The supply chain for my can of coca-cola would have involved bauxite mined in Australia, smelted in Sweden, rolled in either Sweden or Germany and turned into cans at a factory in England. The product itself would have included sugar grown in France, phosphorous mined in Idaho and caffeine from a chemical manufacturer. The cans are shipped from manufacturer to warehouse to bottler, where they are filled and put in cardboard cartons made from forest pulp and shipped again to a regional distribution warehouse and on to the retail outlet, perhaps via another intermediary in between (Hawken, Lovins and Lovins, 1999 after Womack, J. and Jones, D 1996). Objective. To promote and support the implementation of public procurement programmes that encourage the uptake of sustainable products and services.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}