The Sustainable Infrastructure Imperative: Financing for Better Growth and Development

Investing in sustainable infrastructure is key to tackling the three central challenges facing the global community: reigniting growth, delivering on the Sustainable Development Goals, and reducing climate risk in line with the Paris Agreement.

This report identifies the main barriers to financing sustainable infrastructure and builds an action agenda to overcome them:

• Tackle fundamental price distortions through fossil fuel subsidy reform and carbon pricing
• Strengthen policy frameworks and institutional capacities
• Transform the financial system to deliver the scale and quality of investment
• Ramp up investments in clean technology R&D and deployment