IGPN - International Green Purchasing Network

December 18, 2025

International Green Purchasing Network 2025 annual meeting held to stimulate low carbon integrated management and green purchasing

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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