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Enhancing Building Sustainability Through Improved Life Cycle Assessment Methods – Policy Brief Series

1. SAPIENS Policy Brief Series: Enhancing Building Sustainability Through Improved Life Cycle Assessment Methods Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a crucial tool for evaluating the environmental impact of buildings. However, current methods often overlook important...

SAPIENS Network Final Conference 

Institute of European Law hosts the SAPIENS Network Final Conference    Introduction On 20 June 2024, the Institute of European Law (IEL), a part of Birmingham Law School at the University of Birmingham, hosted the final Network Conference of the EU Horizon...

New Publication: Analysing the Drivers for Sustainable Public Procurement

1. Drivers for sustainable public procurement Early Stage Researcher Felippe Santos, SAPIENS Lead Researcher Rodrigo Lozano, and Lead Researcher Maria Barreiro-Gen recently published their open-access article entitled “Analysing the drivers for sustainable public...
A Transatlantic Analysis of EU and U.S. Strategies In ‘Green Procurement’ – new publication

A Transatlantic Analysis of EU and U.S. Strategies In ‘Green Procurement’ – new publication

Our lead researcher, Associate Professor, Marta Andhov (from the University of Copenhagen) and Professor Christopher R. Yukins from our partner organization George Washington University Law School published an article in Government Contractor that discusses green public procurement strategies in the European Union and the United States. The article is made available open-access on the Social Science Research Network.

What is Low Emissions Public Procurement?

What is Low Emissions Public Procurement?

I. Introduction On April 12th, the Faculty of Law of the University of Bergen hosted a seminar on "Exploring Private and Public Regulation for Sustainability," organized by Professor Ignacio Herrera Anchestegui and PhD Students Chiara Morfea and Line Gjerstad...