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Session Description

This session will highlight circular and Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP) as a high-impact, transformative instrument to accelerate the shift towards a near-zero emission and resilient built environment — one of the world’s most resource-intensive sectors.
Bringing together policymakers/governments, financiers, practitioners/private sector, and technical experts across levels of government and the built environment value chain, the session will reinforce a shared vision for integrating circularity and sustainability with a whole life cycle approach into procurement practices and policy frameworks. Participants will explore how SPP can translate national financial investments into high-impact, low-carbon projects that strengthen climate resilience, drive demand,  foster innovation, and support equitable economic growth in the built environment.

Building on the Global Framework for Action on Circular and Sustainable Public Procurement, the Buildings Breakthrough, and the Chaillot Declaration, the discussion will focus on four key levers for implementation:

• Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP): Using public purchasing power as a catalyst to stimulate demand for circular, low-carbon construction practices and materials.
• Circularity: Embedding resource efficiency and reuse across the built environment whole life cycle to enable affordable, adaptable, and climate-resilient communities, utilising retrofitting, material circularity and design for circularity.
• Whole Life Cycle Carbon (WLC): Advancing integrated carbon accounting and policy mechanisms to ensure the rapid delivery of housing and infrastructure without compromising on emissions goals.
• Data and Digital Innovation: Harnessing transparent, interoperable, and accessible data to improve decision-making, enhance accountability, and accelerate market transformation.

Through an action-oriented conversation, the event will showcase policy innovation, market collaboration, and data-driven solutions that demonstrate how sustainable public procurement can serve as a strategic lever for achieving near-zero emission and resilient buildings by 2030.

The session will conclude with a call to action inviting governments, organisations, and partners to incorporate circular economy strategies and whole life cycle tools into procurement, and join the Global Framework for Action on Circular and Sustainable Public Procurement, amplifying multilateral and multi-level cooperation to scale impact globally.
 

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