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Convenor`s Orientation on Green Purchasing

The Philippine Center for Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development (PCEPSD) organized the Green Purchasing Alliance Movement (GPAM) that aims to contribute in promoting sustainable consumption patterns through the creation of demand for environmentally preferable products from institutional consumers thereby encouraging suppliers to manufacture such products.

Representatives from government agencies, NGOs and the private sector including the Philippine Wood Producers Association (PWPA) attended the GPAM Convenors’ Orientation and Planning Meeting held On October 15, 2009 at the Makati Stock Exchange Building, Makati City.

It aimed to come up with a unified action plan among industries committed to practice “Green Business”, in response to synergize institutional efforts for the Green Consumerism Agenda.

Dr. Ning Yu, board member of the International Green Purchasing Network introduced what is Green Purchasing. She said it is getting goods and services that consider the quality, cost, delivery and the environment. It is on the premise of the principles of necessity, life cycle of the product, supplier’s effort and environmental information.

She also said the government should be the role model considering that they are the big spender in the society. To become successful, she said there should be: commitment from the top level, enough green products to choose from, information dissemination and promotion of green purchasing.

Mr. June Alvarez, executive director of PCEPSD introduced the ecolabelling program. He said ecolabel identifies overall environmental preference of a product or service within a particular product/service category based on the life cycle consideration. It is awarded by an impartial third party to products and services which are found to meet established environmental leadership criteria.

He also said there are only few products in the Philippines that are ecolabelled; hence, buyers may be deceived of buying products that claimed they are eco-friendly.

As defined by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), ecolabelling or type I (ISO 14020) is only one type of environmental performance labeling. Other types are: type II (ISO 14021) – self declaration claims and type III (ISO 14025)– environmental declarations.

Mr. Renato Pineda, Jr., board member of the National Ecolabelling Programme-Green Choice Philippines, said green products may cost higher but considering the environmental cost, their counterparts may cost higher.

Environment Management Bureau (EMB) Director Julian Amador said the efforts of the government on green procurement is contained in Executive Order 301 – a Policy Initiative on Green Procurement signed by the President on March 29, 2004. The EMB implements a Green Procurement Program but full implementation in all government agencies is yet to be observed.

Most recommendations given by the workshop were to beef up awareness
campaign and to give manufacturers leverage so eco-friendly products can become competitive.

A draft GPAM Council 2009 Declaration of Commitment and Call to Action was also distributed for further study and
comments of the participants.

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