{"id":14979,"date":"2015-05-27T11:41:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T09:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mip.no\/?p=14979"},"modified":"2018-03-06T12:46:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T11:46:39","slug":"environmental-requirements-important-to-public-procurements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mip.no\/en\/environmental-requirements-important-to-public-procurements\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental requirements important to public procurements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>With \u201cgreen industry\u201d as a political ambition in Norway, the question is whether sustainable, eco-friendly production capacity in Norway should be crucial to choices made for building and construction procurement projects, or whether emphasis should remain on the lowest possible price.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the steel industry, Celsa Armeringsst\u00e5l AS has the strictest requirements in respect of emissions to air and extremely low emissions of CO<sub>2<\/sub> per tonne.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; This is a situation which we can and must utilise, both as a business and as a nation. Coordinating environmental taxes, environmental requirements and requirements concerning the use of sustainable materials in the building and construction sector may lead to a win-win situation. The tools for implementing such assessments during public procurement processes are already in place. That said, we have to have enough of a political will to put this into practice, says the Head of Finance at Celsa Armeringsst\u00e5l AS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With \u201cgreen industry\u201d as a political ambition in Norway, the question is whether sustainable, eco-friendly production capacity in Norway should be crucial to choices made for building and construction procurement projects, or whether emphasis should remain on the lowest possible price.","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":14926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[424],"tags":[565,505,695,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mip.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mip.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mip.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mip.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mip.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14979"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mip.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21196,"href":"https:\/\/www.mip.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14979\/revisions\/21196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mip.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mip.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mip.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mip.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}