DÉSIRÉE KLINGLER

Panel on sustainable PPP at the 6th UNECE PPP Forum in Barcelona, with Steven van Garsse (Hasselt University), Désirée Klingler (Yale, St. Gallen), Scott Walchak (ADEC Innovations), Christopher Clement-Davies (indep. consultant), and others.

A free hour-long webinar hosted by the GW Law Government Procurement Law Program on measures which define new approaches to protectionism – with legal experts and economists from both sides of the Atlantic. Learn more here: https://publicprocurementinternational.com/new-protectionism-webinar/

During the Intensive Doctoral Week at Sciences Po in June 2021, Désirée Klingler, hosted a panel on Green Public Procurement and interviewed four speakers. 0:00 Introduction, Désirée Klingler (PhD University of St. Gallen) 3:45 Life Cycle Costing, Marta Andhov (Professor University of Copenhagen) 33:15 GPP in the Judiciary, Marc Steiner (Judge Swiss Federal Admin Court) 57:15 Auctions and GPP, Carine Staropoli (Professor Paris School of Economics) 1:17:41 Greenwashing, Steven Schooner (Professor GW University) Check it out! You can contact me at: desiree.klingler@yale.edu.

Sustainability is one of the new criteria in government purchasing, also referred to as Green Public Procurement (or GPP). Sustainable procurement plays a crucial role not only in the U.S. Federal Acquisition Regulation where 95% of federal contracts should make use of energy-efficient products, but also in the EU Public Procurement Directive 2014. In order to select the most advantageous tender» and guarantee equal treatment of suppliers, the government needs to assess sustainability in an objective manner. While indirect measures to evaluate a policy's impact on human life exist, such as QUALY (quality-adjusted life year) or DALY (disability-adjusted life year), they are not tailored towards green public procurement and omit important aspects of sustainability in government purchasing. The panelist will discuss different methods, including the limitations of stated preference studies, the difference between willingness to pay and accept, and procurement-specific measures such as the consideration of life-cycle costing, green labels, sustainability weighting and emission calculators. The mixed backgrounds of the panelists—economists, legal scholars and practitioners—will provide diverse and nuanced perspectives on how to measure sustainability. Panel members: - Chair: Désirée Klingler, PhD Candidate in Law at the University of St. Gallen - Steve Schooner, Professor of Public Procurement Law at George Washington University - Roberto Caranta, Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Turin -Marc Steiner, Judge at the Swiss Federal Administrative Court

On Dec 10, 2020, GW Law's Government Procurement Law Program hosted a webinar which discussed what may be the greatest challenge to public procurement in our lifetimes: delivering COVID-19 vaccines, worldwide. A panel of experts addressed distribution strategies in the United States and internationally, focusing on potential problems and their solutions.

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