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Sustainable Procurement

ºÚÁÏÍø´óÊÂ¼Ç Sustainable Procurement is aimed at delivering outstanding environmental, social and economic benefits to ºÚÁÏÍø´óÊÂ¼Ç students, staff and community through understanding and strengthening ºÚÁÏÍø´óÊÂ¼Ç supply chains.
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ºÚÁÏÍø´óʼǒs Strategic Procurement team is at the forefront of this vision and strives to be leaders of excellence within the higher education sector. ‘Sustainable Procurement’ is the term used at ºÚÁÏÍø´óÊÂ¼Ç to refer to the sustainability aspects of goods, services and supply chain operations, including Environmental sustainability, Modern Slavery and Human rights, Indigenous participation as well as Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

Within these aspects, ºÚÁÏÍø´óʼǒs strategic priorities for Sustainable Procurement are:

Environmental Sustainability
  • Reducing our Scope 3 (value chain) emissions;
  • Identifying and mitigating our impacts to Nature;
  • Contributing to a more Circular Economy through our operations and purchasing activity
Modern Slavery, Human and Labour rights
  • Identifying and understanding the types and intensity of ºÚÁÏÍø´óʼǒs supply chain Modern Slavery risks across industry sectors and geographies;
  • Collaborating with our suppliers to gain transparency beyond Tier 1 and develop and implement measures to mitigate and reduce those risks
Social Procurement

Generating social impact beyond the value of our spend, and contributing to a more inclusive economy by:

  • Increasing our partnerships with Indigenous suppliers, and Social enterprises including:
    • Women-led businesses
    • Disability enterprises
    • Local enterprises

These priorities areas are executed in collaboration with cross-operational teams at ºÚÁÏÍø´óʼÇ.

In 2023, ºÚÁÏÍø´óÊÂ¼Ç developed its Sustainable Procurement Framework and Roadmap, with the aim of framing ºÚÁÏÍø´óʼǒs commitment to more sustainable supply chains from 2023 to 2026 and beyond.

In 2024, our focus is on building stronger supplier relationships to foster alignment in progressing our sustainable procurement vision and building sector and industry wide partnerships.

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ºÚÁÏÍø´óÊÂ¼Ç Sustainable Procurement Framework

Collaboration with suppliers

ºÚÁÏÍø´óÊÂ¼Ç has taken steps to understand the Environmental, Social, Modern Slavery and Governance risks posed by our supply chain. As such, ºÚÁÏÍø´óʼǒs supply chain risk ‘hotspots’ have been identified and prioritized as part of our risk-based approach to more sustainable procurement.

ºÚÁÏÍø´óʼǒs own commitments towards collaboration, as well the expectations we have of our suppliers are outlined in ºÚÁÏÍø´óʼǒs Supplier Charter. If you would like more information on the application of these commitments, please contact jasmin.r.lewis@unsw.edu.au.