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McKinsey interviews our CEO, Marie Lam-Frendo about key strategies to help infrastructure leaders to attract private investment and meet net zero goals
Interrelated challenges are common bottlenecks in the planning process for linear infrastructure designed to address climate change. This article explores how the Linear Infrastructure Planning Panel is enabling InfraTech for accessible decisionmaking.
The carbon finance market is evolving rapidly but is fragmented and complex. With project and political risks affecting the private sector’s willingness to enter new carbon markets, what can governments of developing countries do to scale up participation?
With infrastructure responsible for 79% of global GHGs, JETPs have great potential to rebuild trust among stakeholders and help mobilise private climate finance to support the climate transition and sustainable infrastructure development broadly. The JETP platform offers a valuable sandbox to co-create and validate new approaches and innovations while firming up political will
Today the GI Hub has released Transition Pathways to Sustainable Infrastructure, a new resource to help governments shape future infrastructure to meet global climate targets and the UN Sustainable Development Goals with practical, accessible research and open consultations.
In this article, the authors explore the successes and failures of the built environment’s digital transformation to date, why the Smart City concept is necessary but not sufficient and 3 steps for achieving the Adaptive City of the future – one which works for everyone.
The GI Hub is helping ‘connect the dots’ among governments, technology providers, and investors to scale up technological adoption and seize the opportunity for more sustainable roads. Here, we discuss why this is important and what we aim to achieve.
At last week’s meetings of the G20 Finance Ministers in Washington DC in the margins of the World Bank / IMF Spring Meetings, conversations continued to drive toward action on debt, reform of multilateral institutions, and sustainable finance and investment for the climate transition.
In response to a call for submissions issued by the GI Hub and eight multilateral development banks (MDBs) in March 2023, nearly 50 technology providers submitted solutions to make roads more sustainable in emerging markets.
This article breaks down the blockers to InfraTech adoption and why they occur. Use this article to deepen your understanding of the repercussions of problems like poorly defined value cases and disparate interests among parties across the timeline.
In 2022, infrastructure assets improved their ESG scores in all three pillars of ESG. The scores are encouraging, but they do not mean the assets themselves are more sustainable.
Sustainable infrastructure is infrastructure that delivers long-term economic, social, and environmental (ESE) benefits.
The Coalition for Climate Resilient Investment (CCRI) today announced that it has successfully completed the transfer of its portfolio of government and investor-focused climate tools, solutions, and financial instruments to not-for-profit partners. Supported by the CCRI board, the GI Hub is intended to take the role of Secretariat, responsible for collaborating with and supporting the CCRI legacy partners who will continue delivering the core programs begun by CCRI.
In partnership with seven MDBs, the GI Hub has issued a Call for Submissions for technology-enabled solutions for sustainable roads. The program will provide governments and investors with a pipeline of technology-enabled solutions to make roads more sustainable, and will give technology solution providers an opportunity to pitch their solutions to MDBs for use on current and future road projects.
To mark International Women’s Day 2023 we invited infrastructure students from University College London to quiz GI Hub leaders on how innovation and technology can advance gender equality.
This week the Australian British Chamber of Commerce, the GI Hub and KPMG co-hosted an intimate infrastructure roundtable with the Lord Mayor of the City of London and senior Australian private sector participants, industry associations, think tanks, government, and infrastructure agencies.
In this Q&A we speak to IRIS CEO and Co-founder Emil Sylvester Ramos, to find out how winning the GI Hub’s 2021 innovation competition has helped IRIS to scale globally and reach emerging markets.
Mastercard worked with Transport for London to complement TfL’s closed-loop Oyster system with open-loop EMV payment acceptance, which enables riders to use their own payment card or an enabled device that they already carry with them to pay for public transit. TfL was the first transport system to implement an open-loop EMV payment system.
The InterAmerican Development Bank´s Sustainable Infrastructure Framework aims to help foster shared understanding of the key dimensions and attributes of sustainable infrastructure. The IDB Framework was adapted to Mexico after a thorough analysis of Mexico’s national development strategy and infrastructure investment priorities, in close collaboration with relevant stakeholders.