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Buy Clean is a procurement policy approach incorporating low-carbon requirements into government construction materials purchasing.<\/p>\n
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With so much recent and ongoing activity around Buy Clean policy passage and implementation, policymakers and their collaborators would benefit from (i) a clearly articulated Buy Clean theory of change, and (ii) tools to evaluate Buy Clean policy effectiveness.<\/p>\n
We propose a Buy Clean theory of change<\/b> that connects specific policy interventions to a policy goal via desired outcomes. A desired outcome is a condition that the policy intervention (hopefully) causes to happen. It is also a precondition for the goal to occur. Our proposed theory of change focuses on the climate goals of Buy Clean and defines the following components:\u00a0<\/p>\n For assessing policy effectiveness, we propose a series of indicators and associated metrics<\/b> to measure the extent to which the desired outcomes have been achieved.<\/p>\n We hope that agencies and organizations that implement or evaluate Buy Clean policies can use this resource to build policy evaluation frameworks that suit their needs. We also hope that other active organizations in the Buy Clean policy space will build upon and refine the initial proposals here and propose similar indicators for tracking labor and economic growth goals as a complement to the climate goals described in this report. Ultimately, more robust policy evaluation can inform new policies and help improve existing policies as agencies modify or add interventions.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Authors, etc.” _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The research team from the Carbon Leadership Forum (CLF) and the Life Cycle Lab at the University of Washington (UW) College of Built Environments:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Author contributions:<\/strong> Writing \u2014 original draft: B.W.; Writing \u2014 review and editing: J.P., K.S., M.L., B.W.; Conceptualization: J.P., K.S.; Methodology: J.P., B.W.; Visualization: B.W.; Funding acquisition: K.S., M.L.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n *Jordan Palmeri is also a part-time Senior Manager of the Low Carbon Products team at the CLF. His contributions to this work were in his role as Senior Researcher at UW.<\/span><\/p>\n November 2024<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_code _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]\n
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