Green public procurement: a key driver for industrial decarbonisation

What are the key paths to translating the Clean Industrial Deal’s strategy into action and drive the decarbonization of energy-intensive industries? We shared our view on this question at the Bellona Climate Action Conference 2025, during a panel debate focused on lead markets and untapped potential to drive decarbonised growth. 

Green public procurement is one of these tools that can efficiently support the transition to a decarbonised society. Unfortunately, there are still gaps in green procurement. During her intervention, Francoise Bonnet presented several enablers for local and regional authorities that ACR+ would like to see implemented in the upcoming legislation to address these gaps. Among these: revision of the awarding system to give non-price consideration a substantial right in the overall rating; moving away from the lowest price criteria; development of a common set of EU-wide minimum requirements; promotion of joint procurement; easing of cross-border procurements; capacity building and funding for LRAs; European preference. You can read more in our position paper on the EU public procurement directives published in March this year following the European Commission’s decision to revise those directives. 

If you would like to listen to our presentation, you can watch the recording of the conference here starting from 2:06:00.