In the eighth event in the Cambridge Seminar Series on Law and the Climate Crisis, Dr Jellie Molino will talk about Procurement Law and Climate Change, with an opportunity for networking afterwards.
Seminar synopsis:
This presentation will highlight how procurers (both from the public and private sectors) can leverage their purchasing power as to raise the level of ambition of our greenhouse gas reduction targets. It argues that governments, as the largest overall spenders in the market (i.e., public procurement amounted to 12% of the GDP of high-income countries and up to 30% of GDP of developing countries) can use their purchasing power to decrease their carbon emissions through low carbon procurement policies. The private sector can take the lead by making low-carbon options the default market standards for procurers. Procurement law with mandatory low-carbon standards in every stage of the procurement cycle is an important legal instrument in raising the ambition to achieve climate goals.
Lovleen Bhullar, Assistant Professor in Environmental Law at the Department of Land Economy, will be the discussant for this seminar.
About the speaker:

Jellie is a Post-Doctoral Research By-Fellow with research focusing on private law, procurement, and climate change. Dr Jellie Molino is an international legal expert on sustainable public procurement (SPP) and a member of the Philippine Bar specialising in environmental law and corporate compliance. She has worked for international organisations including UNOPS, UNEP, UNDP, World Bank, IFC, OECD, ITC-ILO and ADB. She serves as International SPP Expert for the World Bank in Bangladesh, Türkiye and Angola.