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November 2016

Nested Barriers to Low-Carbon Infrastructure Investment

Nature Climate Change

Low-carbon, 'green' economic growth is necessary to simultaneously improve human welfare and avoid the worst impacts of climate change and environmental degradation. Infrastructure choices underpin both the growth and the carbon intensity of the economy.

October 2020

Green Infrastructure in the Decade for Delivery: Assessing institutional investment

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
This report provides a first-of-its-kind empirical assessment of investment in infrastructure by institutional investors domiciled in OECD and G20 countries, presenting a snapshot from February 2020.
March 2019

Valuing Sustainability in Infrastructure Investments: Market Status, Barriers and Opportunities - A Landscape Analysis

World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF)
This report, which is based on 20+ interviews with investors and other stakeholders, explores the reasons for the slow progress of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) integration in infrastructure investments by private investors and evaluates the emerging field of publicly available tools that seek to make the sustainability impacts on and from infrastructure projects tangible for investors.
29 October 2020

How to Deal with Biodiversity-Related Financial Risks in Infrastructure Investments

Infrastructure and Nature Coalition
On 29 October at 8:00 am EDT the Infrastructure and Nature coalition invites you to join the third session of the “Infrastructure and Nature Webinar Series” on ways to deal with biodiversity-related financial risks in infrastructure investments.
February 2021

International Good Practice Principles for Sustainable Infrastructure

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
This report sets out ten guiding principles that policymakers can follow to help integrate sustainability into infrastructure planning and delivery. They are focused on integrated approaches and systems-level interventions that governments can make to create an enabling environment for sustainable infrastructure.
2 September 2014

Building a case for green private investment

Simon Upton
Simon Upton, Environment Director at the OECD, discusses the challenges of carbon entanglement and the need for policies that foster green private investment, ensuring a low-emissions future.
February 2019

Beyond the Gap : How Countries Can Afford the Infrastructure They Need while Protecting the Planet

World Bank Group
Beyond the Gap: How Countries Can Afford the Infrastructure They Need while Protecting the Planet aims to shift the debate regarding investment needs away from a simple focus on spending more and toward a focus on spending better on the right objectives, using relevant metrics. It does so by offering a careful and systematic approach to estimating the funding needs to close the service gaps in water and sanitation, transportation, electricity, irrigation, and flood protection.
February 2021

Integrated Approaches in Action: A Companion to the International Good Practice Principles for Sustainable Infrastructure

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
This report includes of a selection of case studies that illustrate each of the ten guiding principles which are featured in the first publication of this series on International Good Practice Principles for Sustainable Infrastructure.
July 2020

From Structures to Services: The path to better infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
This book offers policy options for countries to improve the access, quality, and affordability of services today, to ensure that they will be sustainable in the future, and to harness emerging technological advances for the benefit of all.
23 July 2019
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African Development Bank unveils new digital platform for Africa Investment Forum

The African Investment Forum’s new digital platform will connect project sponsors with investment opportunities in Africa, vastly improving the quality of project information and documentation.

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