SUSTAINABILITY
The
Sustainable Procurement Pledge
" We wanted to knock down all of the reasons why an individual professionally can ' t start to embed sustainability and responsibility into procurement ' s ways of working ”
OLIVER HURREY , CHAIR , THE SPP
responsibility crisis . They felt that there was a need to encourage , empower and enable procurement professionals to elevate their work in sustainability and add more value to their business , all of these good things that humans could and should be doing while doing more for the people on the planet as well .
Oliver then joined Thomas and Bertrand in their mission , leveraging his 16 years spent building , running and advising collaborative initiatives in sustainability to help bring the concept of The Sustainable Procurement Pledge to fruition ." It ' s an opportunity for procurement professionals to make a personal and professional pledge to embedding sustainability and responsibility into their procurement practices . We also try and help them remove all the excuses as to why they can ' t achieve that pledge . My boss won ' t let me . I don ' t know what tools to use . What is a circular economy ?
" We wanted to knock down all of the reasons why an individual professionally can ' t start to embed sustainability and responsibility into procurement ' s ways of working . That was the principle . We started with a group of Thomas and Bertrand ' s CPO friends . There were about 20 of us on a call . The eighth meeting held on May 11th had nearly 1500 people in attendance . Fast forward 18 months or so to today , and we ' ve had a pro bono group of volunteers that have been meeting
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