Eco-innovation, the development of products and services that contribute to sustainable development, can spur growth and create new green jobs, a recent report by MEP Karin Kadenbach has claimed. The report, titled "Eco-innovation - Jobs and Growth...

Hospitals are simultaneously decreasing costs and enhancing their sustainability through a process which allows items marked as "single use only" to be reused. Single-use medical device reprocessing involves cleaning, testing, repackaging and...

The reform of the EU procurement directives offers a number of opportunities to further sustainable and innovative public procurement. However there is a large amount of work still to be done at the national and local levels, and some opportunities...

Registration is now open for EcoProcura 2014, which will take place in Ghent (Belgium) from 24 – 26 September 2014. Answering questions on how to capitalise on the greater cost efficiency of sustainable procurement, the obstacles to mainstreaming...

Following approval by the European Parliament, the European Council has adopted the revised public procurement directives, marking a major overhaul of public procurement rules across the EU. The revised directives aim to modernise public procurement,...

The municipal police and the Department of Surveying in Zürich (Switzerland) have made a joint procurement of two small drones equipped with cameras. They weigh about 6.5 kilograms, can fly at up to 60 km/h and have a battery life of about half an...