Are commitments and actions towards Climate and Biodiversity becoming procurement criteria for consultants, designers, contractors and building product manufacturers, and criteria for selecting which contracts to bid?

Practices and organisations who are making climate and biodiversity emergency Promise of Declarations are questioned on their actions, and outcomes on issues pledged within the declarations, for example:

• Raising awareness,
• Moving to regenerative design practices
• Set mitigation as critical measures for awards, prizes and listings.
• Sharing knowledge on open source basis
• Evaluate all new projects against (climate declaration)
• Going beyond net zero carbon
• Collaborate (on climate / biodiversity emergencies)
• Shift to low embodied carbon materials in all work

The pressure from investment organisations such as the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) in expecting material companies to make commitments on:

• Accountability and oversight of climate change risk and opportunities.
• Action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across their value chain consistent with the Paris Agreement’s goal
• Provide corporate disclosure

Interesting the Creative Climate declaration contains the pledge to

• Reveal income from fossil fuel and high carbon clients
• Not work with fossil fuel client briefs’

Assessing Regenerative Sustainability Capacity

Although written before the current raft of declarations, the RESTORE WG3 Publication provides a Regenerative PQQ procurement guide. (Pages 41-45)

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