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December 18, 2025
2025 annual meeting of the International Green Purchasing Network-IGPN was held on the theme of environment friendly products/services low carbon of integrated management and green purchasing practice virtually on December 11. Participants from national Green Purchasing Networks (GPN), and IGPN Advisory Board, invited experts from UNEP, GEN, ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability attended this meeting. The meeting was hosted by the IGPN Secretariat, China Environmental United Certification Center–CEC.
Mr. Chen Yanping, Chair of IGPN, presented his speech in the opening remarks, “Public procurement has been increasingly positioned as one of the most powerful levers for tackle climate change. 2025, the IGPN in collaboration with UNEP One Planet Network, launched the supply chain management innovative practice collection activity which achieved periodical progress. I hope participants exchange fully for the achievements and expectations, plan for next year development by considering the global trends”. Mr. ZHU Shu, regional director of ICLEI East Asia vice chair of IGPN, delivered his welcome remarks, strategically align IGPN’s work with major global agendas, hope actively build synergies between sustainable procurement with the critical discussions on planet biodiversity and the sustainable development.
Meanwhile, Ms. Paulina Boéchat, Representative of UNEP One Planet Network Secretariat, introduced the latest Progress on Sustainable Public Procurement Implementation: Preliminary insights of SDG12.7.1 third data collection exercise; Ms. Isabella Huang-Loh, Vice Chair, Global Ecolabelling Network, introduced the New Green Purchasing Strategy of GEN and proposal with IGPN collaboration. Additionally, IGPN secretariat, together with representatives from GPN China, Japan, Indian, Thailand, and the Philippines recapped the progress in 2025 with thinking about the 2025 expectations.
Since CEC holds the IGPN Secretariat in 2018, it consistently works on the IGPN operational and members’ collaboration activities. Stated by Mr. LIU Zunwen, CEC general manager, in the summary speech, “Next, IGPN Secretariat will mobilize member’s needs, enrich its activities, optimize the platform of information and knowledge; meanwhile, incorporate global trend of sustainable public procurement, carry our in-depth collaborations with the GEN, and One Planet Network, ac to achieve IGPN mission which is prevail of green purchasing and environmentally friendly products or services”
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December 8, 2025
This technical paper has been developed as part of the Digitalization 4 Circular Economy (D4CE) Impact Initiative. D4CE is hosted by the One Planet Network and Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability (CODES). It is a collaborative endeavor involving a diverse community of experts and organizations with a primary objective to accelerate the transition to a circular economy by leveraging digital technologies as powerful scalers. To drive implementation, D4CE has established two Intervention Labs — one focused on Global Digital Standards and Interoperability and another on Digitally Enabled Business Models — to turn knowledge into action. Through these efforts, D4CE is working toward a more harmonized, transparent, and inclusive digital ecosystem for circularity.
This "Blueprint for a Global Digital Product Information System (DPIS) Framework" is the result of a dedicated and insightful collaboration between the 10YFP One Planet Network and the Wuppertal Institute, with inputs from the Life Cycle Initiative, enriching the integration of life cycle perspectives.
DPIS is the digital infrastructure that enables the exchange of Digital Product Information (DPI) — standardized sustainability-related data about products. DPI includes for example material composition, environmental impact, and social responsibility data. DPIS includes the digital infrastructure designed for the exchange of the data and even when covering only part of the life cycle, or certain sectors, the system is designed to be modular and scalable, making it possible to expand to the full lifecycle over time.
A common framework is needed to harmonize and scale DPIS initiatives, ensuring these resources provide the necessary information to support more sustainable consumption and production, as well as accelerating the transition to a Circular Economy (CE). The global Framework for Digital Product Information System (DPIS) aims to address this issue. The Framework will place CE and the sustainability agenda at the heart of DPIS, while providing guidance on the development of an interoperable global system. It will support political decision makers and DPIS developers in different regions, providing political and technical support. Ultimately, it will help to create interconnected solutions that promote global traceability, transparency, and sustainable business practices.
This document provides a Blueprint for the development of a global Framework. It was created during a pre-study phase aimed at analysing the market landscape, identifying existing initiatives, and assessing stakeholder needs. The insights gathered here will inform the design of an effective, inclusive, and practical Framework.
More details at One Planet Network Knowledge Center.
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