📋 Tender Overview
PROJECT DETAILS
Project number:
2017.9002.1
Status:
running project
Responsible organizational unit:
2A00 Asia I
Contact person:
Kai Hofmann kai.hofmann1@giz.de
Partner countries:
Thailand
SUMMARY
Goals:
The public awareness, the legal frameworks as well as the technical and institutional capacities to develop, strengthen and apply policies and instruments on environmental labels and sustainable public procurement are being developed in the
Client:
Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumption.
Project partners:
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment
Financier:
not available
ORDER VOLUME
Overall project:
(including all previous, current and subsequent project phases, if any)
5,000,000 euros
Current project:
5,000,000 euros
COMBINED FINANCING not available
PREVIOUS PROJECT not available
SUCCESSOR PROJECTnot available
DURATION
Overall project:
(including all previous, current and subsequent project phases, if any)
March 3, 2020 - December 31, 2024
Current project:
March 1, 2020 - December 31, 2024
OTHER PARTIES INVOLVED not available
FURTHER INFORMATION
Project website not available
DEVELOPMENT POLICY IDENTIFIERS
Climate change, reduction of greenhouse gases
main goal
CRS KEY
41010 Environmental Policy and Administration
EVALUATION
not available
PROJECT DESCRIPTION (DE)
Initial situation
Sustainable public procurement and environmental labels have become increasingly important in the Southeast Asian region in recent years. Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines have already implemented Sustainable Consumption and Production for Low Carbon Economy (12_I_173_Asia_G_SCP4LCE) and Advancing and Measuring Sustainable Consumption and Production for a Low-Carbon Economy in Middle-Income and Newly Industrialized as part of the IKI projects Countries (15_I_255 Global G Advancing SCP) have successfully started to introduce sustainable public procurement and environmental labels. However, implementation throughout the Southeast Asian region is at a very different level due to various factors.
Overall, there is great potential in the region to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through sustainable public procurement and environmental labels, as public budgets have immense purchasing power. Through similar product ranges in Southeast Asia, experiences with sustainable public procurement can be transferred or replicated directly from one country to other countries in the region. Thailand is taking a pioneering role in the region and will now provide support to other South Asian countries. While Vietnam has already published strategies to promote sustainable public procurement and environmental labels have been established for several years, Cambodia, Laos, Bhutan and Myanmar are still at the beginning in this regard. In none of these countries are there environmental labels or legal regulations for the integration of sustainab
