Are EU institutions still green actors? An empirical study of green public procurement
Fecha
2021Versión
Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
Tipo
Artículo / Artikulua
Versión
Versión publicada / Argitaratu den bertsioa
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10.1111/jcms.13204
Resumen
Analysing the environmental actorness of the EU, more than one voice has spoken of the myth of a Green Europe and a dismantling process of its environmental ambitions. To date, any attempt to quantify this in a homogeneous fashion by different levels of government and institutions has run into serious difficulties. This research, however, uses green public procurement (GPP) as the research instru ...
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Analysing the environmental actorness of the EU, more than one voice has spoken of the myth of a Green Europe and a dismantling process of its environmental ambitions. To date, any attempt to quantify this in a homogeneous fashion by different levels of government and institutions has run into serious difficulties. This research, however, uses green public procurement (GPP) as the research instrument to quantify the commitment to environmental policies. We construct the database from tenders published in the Supplement to the Official Journal between 2009 and 2019. Based on more than 743,061 observations, the article finds that the EU's institutions have the lowest GPP adoption rates in relation to all other levels of government. Moreover, it also records marked differences between the EU institutions where the European Parliament is performing better than the European Commission and, during Juncker Commission, EC performs worse. [--]
Materias
EU environmental policy,
EU institutions,
Green Europe,
Green public procurement,
Policy-making
Editor
Wiley
Publicado en
Journal of Common Market Studies. 2021 pp. 1–18
Departamento
Universidad Pública de Navarra. Departamento de Economía /
Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Ekonomia Saila
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Diego Badell wishes to acknowledge the Observatory of European Foreign Policy‐Secretaria General de Recerca (SGR), funded by the Agency for Management of University Research Grants (AGAUR) of the Catalan Government (Grant agreement: 2017‐SGR‐693). Jordi Rosell thanks Catalan (Grant agreement: 2017‐SGR‐644) and Spanish (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, PID2019‐104319RB‐I00) governments for their projects and Serra Hunter program for the assistant professor position. Also, we acknowledge IBEI members for their comments and this journal anonymous referees.