Sustainable public procurement in the Green Climate Fund: a “walk-the-talk” strategy on climate change”

This article evaluated the possible role of public procurement in addressing the problem of climate change. It was divided into three parts. Part I covered the climate negotiations from Stockholm to Paris where the author evaluated the published records in every negotiation and identified any input that might lead to the recognition of the role of sustainable public procurement in carbon emission reduction. Part II highlighted the best examples of how sustainable public procurement had contributed to the reduction of carbon emission through low carbon procurement. Part III evaluated the propriety of adopting low-carbon procurement as a "walk-the-talk" strategy by the Green Climate Fund in its administrative guidelines for corporate procurement. This article concluded that sustainable public procurement, like other types of procurement (i.e., trade procurement) has barriers, and one of the possible ways to slowly erode these barriers is to reevaluate the principles behind its conceptualization, e.g., nondiscrimination and national treatment applied in the context of trade. In the case of sustainable public procurement in the context of climate negotiations, the objective has been the reduction of carbon emission. It is not difficult to get institutions that were and will be established because of the continuing climate negotiations to be consistent in promoting its objective, even in the most trivial activity, such as their own corporate procurement.