Planet Positive
Planet Positive is an international environmental mark that recognises organisations that have committed to reduce their carbon footprint by at least 5% per year and have a sound reduction programme in place to achieve these targets, alongside an investment into community sustainability projects. Planet Positive is working with ProcServe to offer certification to suppliers using the ProcServe Trading Network. For ProcServe clients, the Planet Positive certification helps bring sustainability into the procurement process.
Procurement has to be able to demonstrate that it is able to influence 100% of its organisation’s spend. If it can’t then there is little chance of Procurement being seen as relevant in future or of it being able to drive value from over £200bn worth of third party spend. There is a much better chance of achieving this by working together. I am certain that there are the right people in sufficient numbers in the public sector to do this but they have to be focussed upon the right things.
David Shields, Managing Director, Government Procurement Service
