Flemish Government: Education for Sustainable Development and Action Plan for Sustainable Public Procurement
 

The Flemish government adopted an implementation plan for the UNECE Strategy on the UN Decade for Education for SD (DESD). In Flanders, some exemplary work is being done within two transition processes: one concerning closing material loops and one concerning sustainable building and living. Transition processes strive to achieve structural socioeconomic transformations. Networks will bring together individuals and organisations (universities, industry, governments and NGO’s) in order to co-create breakthroughs. The transition process concerning closing material loops focuses on local, short and transparant material loops. The transition process concerning sustainable building and living strives to have only sustainable buildings being built by 2020 and an increase in retrofitting existing dwellings. Moreover, the Flemish government recently adopted an Action Plan for sustainable public procurement. Based on a progressive, iterative process of 4 subsequent Flemish action plans the target is to reach 100% sustainable public procurement by 2020 in Flanders.