{"id":602,"date":"2022-04-29T22:36:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T22:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sustainability-innovation.asu.edu\/spri\/?page_id=602"},"modified":"2022-05-10T17:59:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T17:59:01","slug":"south-korea","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sustainability-innovation.asu.edu\/spri\/south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Thing\">\r\n\t<div class=\"col-sm-4\">\r\n\t\t<div id=\"sidebarNav\" class=\"sidebar-nav affix-top\">\r\n\t\t\t[menu-list menu=&#8217;Sidebar &#8211; professional resources&#8217;]\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div> \r\n\t\r\n\t<div class=\"col-sm-8\"> \r\n\t\t<h2 class=\"space-top-0\">South Korea<\/h2>\r\n\t\t\t<h3>Green purchasing in South Korean municipalities<\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t\t<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sustainability-innovation.asu.edu\/spri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2022\/04\/SPRISouthKoreaReport.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sustainability-innovation.asu.edu\/spri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2022\/04\/SouthKoreaReportGraphic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-390\" \/><\/a>In 2020, South Korea\u2019s government purchasing accounted for 25.7% of country-level gross domestic product. Purchased items include vehicle fleets, construction materials, chemicals, electronics, and office materials, all contributors to global climate change and other environmental concerns during these products\u2019 production and use.<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t\t<p>To address the environmental impacts associated with government purchasing, some municipalities have implemented green purchasing policies. A green purchasing policy refers to the set of activities undertaken by an organization to implement purchasing that reduces negative effects on the environment.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t\t<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sustainability-innovation.asu.edu\/spri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2022\/04\/SPRISouthKoreaReport.pdf\" class=\"btn btn-primary btn-lg\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t<h3>Blog posts<\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t<ul>\r\n\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sustainability-innovation.asu.edu\/spri\/news\/archive\/five-actions-to-advance-green-purchasing-in-south-korean-municipalities\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Five actions to advance green purchasing in South Korean municipalities<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sustainability-innovation.asu.edu\/spri\/news\/archive\/green-purchasing-policy-adoption-in-south-korean-municipalities\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Green purchasing policy adoption in South Korean municipalities<\/a><\/li>\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t<\/ul>\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[menu-list menu=&#8217;Sidebar &#8211; professional resources&#8217;] South Korea Green purchasing in South Korean municipalities In 2020, South Korea\u2019s government purchasing accounted for 25.7% of country-level gross domestic product. Purchased items include vehicle fleets, construction materials, chemicals, electronics, and office materials, all contributors to global climate change and other environmental concerns during these products\u2019 production and use. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-602","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability-innovation.asu.edu\/spri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability-innovation.asu.edu\/spri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability-innovation.asu.edu\/spri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability-innovation.asu.edu\/spri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability-innovation.asu.edu\/spri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability-innovation.asu.edu\/spri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability-innovation.asu.edu\/spri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}