Environmentally friendly procurement and sustainability are important topics in many organizations and is one of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s). Organisations can challenge and stimulate suppliers to help them reach their sustainability goals via their procurement projects.

From the Erasmus University Rotterdam (Jolien Grandia) and Ghent University (Bert George) we have therefore initiated a new research into environmentally friendly procurement. In cooperation with the NEVI and VIB we will be surveying procurement professionals from different countries about environmentally friendly procurement. With this research we hope to gain insight into the considerations that play a role in procuring in a more or less environmentally friendly way and understand the role sustainability plays in the work of procurement professionals. The aggregated and anonymous answers will be used for several publications that will be listed on the publications page once they have been written, accepted and published.