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No Time To Waste: Embracing Sustainable Procurement To Mitigate The Accelerating Climate Crisis, Steven L. Schooner
No Time To Waste: Embracing Sustainable Procurement To Mitigate The Accelerating Climate Crisis, Steven L. Schooner
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Procurement professionals will increasingly be asked to play an important role in adapting to and mitigating the effects of climate change. Unfortunately, we don't have time to waste, either feeling hopeless or waiting for changes to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and subsequent efforts to implement new regulations. The time to start progressing up the learning curve is now. We need to talk - seriously, thoughtfully - about climate change and sustainable procurement, particularly early in the acquisition planning process. We need to rethink the value proposition, particularly with regard to factoring in the social costs of continuing to rely …