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What qualifies as critical infrastructure, and what can governments and industry do to increase its resilience? We spoke to four experts for their perspectives.
In 2021, the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors asked the G20's Sustainable Finance Working Group (SFWG) to develop a multi-year G20 Sustainable Finance Roadmap identifying the G20’s sustainable finance priorities, and to work on specific priority areas. This report characterises challenges, reviews existing practices, and proposes a set of recommendations to progress in the priority areas.
The QII Principles are voluntary, non-binding principles that reflect a common strategic direction and aspiration for quality infrastructure investment.
The QII Principles are voluntary, non-binding principles that reflect a common strategic direction and aspiration for quality infrastructure investment.
Long term private investors have long started investing in those assets, but the potential - and the need - for more and better private investment remains huge. Drawing on the vast pool of experience and contributions of LTIIA members, this report analyses the current constraints and current challenges limiting institutional investors’ share of the market.
In 2021, the Global Infrastructure Hub published the findings of a survey of G20 members that collected case studies and examples of projects or programs that demonstrate the benefits of QII or exemplify good practice in their countries or in recipient countries. This survey was undertaken at the request of the G20 Infrastructure Working Group (IWG). It can be accessed here.
The G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (FMCBGs) met yesterday and issued a Communiqué outlining their collective commitments and priorities. The Communiqué cites several GI Hub tools that will help G20 countries and others harness the transformative potential of infrastructure and attract private investment in infrastructure.
As issues such as energy security, environmental protection and climate change become increasingly prominent, accelerating the development of new energy has become the general consensus and concerted action of the international community in order to promote energy generation transformation and address climate change.
Taiyuan, like most northern cities in China, faces a serious shortage of clean heating and heat sources. Under the double pressure of environmental protection and people's livelihood, the Taiyuan government has adopted a low-cost, low energy consumption, environmental protection, which takes into account environment, peoples? livelihood and safety such as the Gujiao power plant, a long-distance transmission heat supply project using waste disposal heat.
Parties involved (public and private): The investment and construction of the project follows a "1 + 1 + X" model for investment and construction: 1 is the power company, 1 is the local government platform company, X is the social capital, which together forms the formation of multi-party joint platform company
Since the large-scale construction project was started in 1979, the Beijing Natural Gas Utilization System Project’s total investment has exceeded 30 billion RMB
Construct and operate 9 sections of expressway.
The project covers four towns around the county, benefiting 13,300 households and 126,300 people.After the implementation of the project, the average annual water saving is 21.58 million m3, and the water saving rate is 48.6%.
The project includes three subprojects: transfer solid waste to electricity, transfer food leftovers to biogas, transfer food leftovers to biodiesel.
Erhai Lake, whose basin area is 2,565 square kilometers with 117 rivers flowing into the lake, is the main drinking water source of the City of Dali, covering 16 villages and towns of Dali with a population of 833,000 people.
Infrastructure development should demonstrate social outcomes, argues Marie Lam-Frendo, CEO of the Global Infrastructure Hub.
The Reference tool is meant to serve as a practical tool to help governments and other stakeholders understand and implement the critical success factors that deliver inclusive infrastructure.
This paper provides a preliminary assessment of expected benefits of government-backed identification systems for firms across a variety of industries.
Increasingly, infrastructure leaders, investors and developers are recognising the need to not only increase the quantity of infrastructure investment globally to drive economic growth, but also the quality of infrastructure investment, to ensure that that growth and development is inclusive and sustainable.
The OECD Recommendation on the Governance of Infrastructure provides practical guidance for efficient, transparent and responsive decision-making processes in infrastructure investment.