Given the scale of government purchasing power, both centrally and across the wider public sector, the UK Government has an opportunity, and a responsibility, to drive best practice and to demand the use of sustainably sourced products.

Given the scale of government purchasing power, both centrally and across the wider public sector, the UK Government has an opportunity, and a responsibility, to drive best practice and to demand the use of sustainably sourced products. Type: conclusion | Number: 9 | Paragraph: 38 | Response status: under_consideration Government response: The Environment Act will require large organisations that use forest risk commodities in their commercial activity in the UK to ensure that those commodities were produced in compliance with local laws relating to land ownership and use. It recognises the primacy of national and sub-national governm