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October 22, 2026
The Board of the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production (10YFP) met in Gandhinagar, India, alongside the World Circular Economy Forum 2026, bringing together Board members, government representatives and UNEP experts to discuss priorities for advancing sustainable consumption and production (SCP) and circular economy approaches.
The meeting was chaired by Annika Lindblom of Finland, Chair of the 10YFP Board, alongside Dr Amandeep Garg of India, Board Co-Chair. India hosted the meeting as countries and partners gathered in Gandhinagar for the World Circular Economy Forum.
Board members exchanged perspectives on national and regional approaches to SCP and the circular economy, highlighting policy priorities, implementation experiences and opportunities for stronger international cooperation.
A central focus of the meeting was the 2027 review of Sustainable Development Goal 12 at the UN High-Level Political Forum. The Board discussed how the 10YFP and the wider One Planet Network can contribute to preparations for the review and help strengthen the global conversation on sustainable consumption and production towards 2030 and beyond.
The meeting also provided an opportunity to connect the work of the 10YFP with related UNEP initiatives and the latest science on natural resource use. Janez Potočnik, Co-Chair of UNEP’s International Resource Panel, joined the Board for a dedicated exchange on strengthening the science-policy interface and the role of data and evidence in supporting effective SCP and circular economy policies.
More details at One Planet Network Knowledge Center.
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October 19, 2026
Between COP29 and COP31, UNEP's Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP) work has advanced from global commitment to directly supporting governments to use public spending to drive more sustainable, circular and resilient markets across high-impact sectors.
Global Framework for Action on Sustainable and Circular Public Procurement for the Built Environment
The One Planet Network’s Global Framework for Action: Harnessing Sustainable and Circular Public Procurement to drive demand for a Near-Zero emission and resilient Built Environment, launched at COP29, has now been formally endorsed by 13 countries across four continents and adopted by the GlobalABCIntergovernmental Council for Buildings and Climate (ICBC) as an implementation product of the Chaillot Declaration.
This adoption has been underpinned by sustained technical engagement:
Early in the year, a workshop on the implementation of the Global Framework for Action: Harnessing sustainable and circular public procurement to drive demand for a near-zero and resilient built environment took place at the Sustainable Buildings and Construction Summit, convened by the GlobalABC with a broad coalition of partners spanning government, industry, standards bodies, and research institutions. Country-level workshops have further supported governments in aligning the Framework with national priorities, with early-adopter countries sharing practical experience through South-South exchange. At UNFCCC Climate Week in Baku, an Implementation Lab, "Building the Market: How Governments Are Using Their Public Spending to Decarbonize Construction Materials and Heavy Industries," matched implementation barriers with deployed solutions from governments, standards bodies, and industry, and built alignment on tracking GPP impact metrics. At New York Climate Week (NYCW), these conversations continued, deepening connections between public procurement, industrial transformation, and market action as governments prepare for COP31.
On capacity building, a 10-hour online course on sustainable and circular public procurement for the built environment was launched and is now available in English, French, and Spanish. Eight countries have nominated national focal points to coordinate uptake.
Complementing the online course, five regional workshops were delivered under the LAC Regional Council of Government Experts on Sustainable Consumption and Production, bringing together participants from eight countries to strengthen capacities on policy frameworks, life-cycle costing, ecolabelling, needs and risk assessment, and monitoring of SDG indicator 12.7.1.
Institutional capacity building projects are also advancing in Senegal and Ghana, supporting the development of national action plans to coordinate the implementation of activities under the Framework and advance this agenda.
An AI-supported tool to help procurers apply sustainability criteria in practice is under development, with a broad coalition of governments and technical partners engaged in its design and piloting.
Advancing Sustainable Public Food Procurement
The Global Framework for Action on Sustainable Public Food Procurement, developed under the One Planet Network’s Interest Group on Sustainable Public Food Procurement through a collaboration between the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), was launched following a two-year, multi-stakeholder consultation. The Framework provides a shared basis of priority actions for advancing sustainable public food procurement and is now open for endorsement by national and subnational governments and supporting organizations.
Looking ahead to COP31
Taken together, these milestones represent a sustained shift from framework development to implementation. As COP31 approaches, public procurement remains a concrete, scalable mechanism for governments to drive market demand for climate-aligned solutions across the built environment, food systems, and beyond.
More details at One Planet Network Knowledge Center.
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October 12, 2026
The resource aims to use AI to help public procurers more easily identify, understand and apply existing sustainable and circular public procurement criteria, translating them into practical, context-specific requirements for real procurement processes.
This paper presents a proposed UNEP initiative to use artificial intelligence to help bridge the gap between Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP) and Circular Public Procurement (CPP) policy and practical implementation. It outlines the development of an openly accessible, AI-supported platform that would consolidate existing validated procurement criteria and guidance, provide context-specific recommendations, and help procurers translate sustainability requirements into tender specifications, award criteria and contract clauses. The paper also sets out the project’s objectives, phased implementation plan, initial focus on the built environment, partnership and governance model, and approach to responsible AI, including human oversight, source transparency and alignment with national procurement frameworks.
More details at One Planet Network Knowledge Center.
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October 8, 2026
A new Position Paper from the Circular & Fair ICT (CFIT) Pact examines how chemicals of concern can affect circular and fair ICT procurement, and where public procurement can help drive safer and more consistent market practices.
The Circular & Fair ICT (CFIT) Pact, an action under the Sustainable Public Procurement Programme of the One Planet network, has published its first Position Paper, focusing on chemicals of concern in the ICT sector.
Developed by the CFIT Secretariat together with CFIT participants, the paper explains why chemicals need to be considered more deliberately in ICT procurement and identifies areas where procurement can support change.
Chemicals have been one of the four central ambitions of the CFIT Framework from the outset. Chemicals of concern can affect workers during production and recycling, restrict safe reuse, refurbishment and material recovery, and make circular loops harder to close.
The challenge is particularly significant in ICT, where products and supply chains are chemically complex, information can be fragmented, and substitution does not automatically mean safer substitution.
The Position Paper provides a common basis for CFIT's next phase of work, bringing together procurement practice and expert knowledge to strengthen guidance and explore greater alignment between procurement approaches. For public organisations purchasing from the same international ICT market, more consistent requirements can provide clearer signals to suppliers.
As part of the One Planet network and the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns (10YFP), CFIT contributes to wider efforts to use public procurement to advance more sustainable and circular markets.
The paper also reflects relevant UNEP work on chemicals in electronics and the Global Framework on Chemicals.
More details at One Planet Network Knowledge Center.
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