{"id":355,"date":"2020-10-22T22:30:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T22:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sustainability-innovation.asu.edu\/spri\/?page_id=355"},"modified":"2021-03-15T16:03:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T16:03:30","slug":"australia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sustainability-innovation.asu.edu\/spri\/australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Government purchasing in Australia accounts for 36.2% of the country’s total gross domestic product. Examples of these purchases include vehicle fleets, construction material, chemicals, electronics, and office materials. Collectively, these items contribute to global climate change and a host of other environmental concerns. In addition to improving environmental conditions, these policies can improve an organization’s internal efficiencies, which leads to cost savings. Indeed, these important benefits are why Australia’s national government published its 2018 Sustainable Procurement Guide.<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t\t

To determine which factors, encourage Australian local governments to adopt sustainable purchasing policies, researchers at UNSW Business School partnered with Arizona State University\u2019s Sustainable Purchasing Research Initiative to conduct a national survey of 299 Australian municipality managers with 10,000 residents or more.<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t\t

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