The green public procurement (GPP) policy uses the purchasing power of governments to drive more sustainable commodity consumption by generating demand for sustainably sourced products, and in doing so, helps to increase their market share. Public procurement carries significant buying power as it accounts for 12% of OECD countries’ gross domestic product and 14% for low-income countries. More and more governments have been using it as a tool to meet their environmental, economic, and social objectives. GPP is an element of sustainable public procurement that employs public sector buying to reach environmental policy goals.  
As of 2021, 53% of countries had at least one GPP institutional arrangement in place (at differing levels of development), indicating there is much room for improvement. These arrangements included GPP practices incorporated in procurement law, standardized environmental criteria in certain procurement categories, GPP strategies or action plans, and the collection/reporting of GPP activities, among others. However, many countries are not monitoring their procurement operations or reporting on them.  

The green public procurement (GPP) policy uses the purchasing power of governments to drive more sustainable commodity consumption by generating demand for sustainably sourced products, and in doing so, helps to increase their market share. Public procurement carries significant buying power as it accounts for 12% of OECD countries’ gross domestic product and 14% for low-income countries. More and more governments have been using it as a tool to meet their environmental, economic, and social objectives. GPP is an element of sustainable public procurement that employs public sector buying to reach environmental policy goals.  
As of 2021, 53% of countries had at least one GPP institutional arrangement in place (at differing levels of development), indicating there is much room for improvement. These arrangements included GPP practices incorporated in procurement law, standardized environmental criteria in certain procurement categories, GPP strategies or action plans, and the collection/reporting of GPP activities, among others. However, many countries are not monitoring their procurement operations or reporting on them.