Are EU institutions still green actors? An empirical study of green public procurement

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 serio...

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Autores: Badell Sánchez, Diego, Rosell i Segura, Jordi
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/48961
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/48961
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13204
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Palabra clave:EU environmental policy
EU institutions
Green public procurement
Policy-making
Green Europe
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spelling Are EU institutions still green actors? An empirical study of green public procurementBadell Sánchez, DiegoRosell i Segura, JordiEU environmental policyEU institutionsGreen public procurementPolicy-makingGreen EuropeAnalysing 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.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.Wiley202120212021info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/48961http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13204reponame:Repositorio Digital de la UPFinstname:Universitat Pompeu FabraInglésJ Common Mark Stud. 2021 Nov;59(6):1555-72© The Authors. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies published by University Association for Contemporary European Studies and John Wiley & Sons LtdThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/489612026-06-12T07:21:37Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Are EU institutions still green actors? An empirical study of green public procurement
title Are EU institutions still green actors? An empirical study of green public procurement
spellingShingle Are EU institutions still green actors? An empirical study of green public procurement
Badell Sánchez, Diego
EU environmental policy
EU institutions
Green public procurement
Policy-making
Green Europe
title_short Are EU institutions still green actors? An empirical study of green public procurement
title_full Are EU institutions still green actors? An empirical study of green public procurement
title_fullStr Are EU institutions still green actors? An empirical study of green public procurement
title_full_unstemmed Are EU institutions still green actors? An empirical study of green public procurement
title_sort Are EU institutions still green actors? An empirical study of green public procurement
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Badell Sánchez, Diego
Rosell i Segura, Jordi
author Badell Sánchez, Diego
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Rosell i Segura, Jordi
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv EU environmental policy
EU institutions
Green public procurement
Policy-making
Green Europe
topic EU environmental policy
EU institutions
Green public procurement
Policy-making
Green Europe
description 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.
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