Publications

The Blue Dot Network aims to help mobilise private sector investment by identifying and encouraging market-driven, transparent, and sustainable infrastructure projects. It establishes a voluntary, private-sector focused, government-supported project-level certification that aligns with the G20 Principles for Quality Infrastructure Investment, the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) Performance Standards, the Equator Principles, the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, and the OECD Recommendation on the Governance of Infrastructure.

This report outlines an approach to country platforms to help channel technical assistance and public and private finance to emerging and developing countries in order to support the achievement of net zero targets.

The G20/GI Hub Framework on How to Best Leverage Private Sector Participation to Scale Up Sustainable Infrastructure, which sets out opportunity areas and actions for the G20 to enable the private sector to scale up its investments in sustainable infrastructure.

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.

This paper from EDHECinfra explores how institutional investors should incorporate ESG elements into the financial management of their portfolios.

This report leverages the experience of NGFS members and observers, as well as a survey of 25 central banks and 24 financial supervisors, to examine key challenges related to market transparency in green finance - particularly with regard to taxonomies; green external review and assessment; and climate transition metrics, frameworks, and market products. It also aims to inform a broad dialogue with market participants to find potential solutions to policy challenges.

Deloitte's Analytics Institute published this analysis of how new technology and data analytics can be used for predictive maintenance.

The LTIIA's report on Climate-Resilient Infrastructure: How to scale up private investment examines the current state of climate-resilient infrastructure investment and brings forward recommendations and proposals.

The QII Principles are voluntary, non-binding principles that reflect a common strategic direction and aspiration for quality infrastructure investment.

The Blueprint provides a set of evidence-based, voluntary, non-binding actions to advance the six elements of the G20 InfraTech Agenda.

The QII Principles are voluntary, non-binding principles that reflect a common strategic direction and aspiration for quality infrastructure investment.

Policies that governments in emerging markets can advance to facilitate the mobilisation of private sector investment in green and climate-friendly infrastructure.

One Planet Summit reports on how blended finance can help scale up climate and nature investments.

The policy framework for investment provides a systematic approach for improving investment conditions and a comprehensive checklist of key policy issues for consideration by any government interested in creating an enabling environment for all types of investment.

Infrastructure NSW works behind the scenes to support these goals. Since 2015, one of our major tools has been the Infrastructure Investor Assurance Framework (IIAF).

Procuring agencies will assess the early contractor involvement (ECI) procurement model as part of the procurement options analysis on complex major infrastructure projects, where there is significant unknown scope, risks or interfaces, or a need for accelerated delivery timeframes.

A set of practice note encourages a staged assessment of the potential benefits from delivery of an early works packaging strategy to be undertaken early in the planning phase on all major infrastructure construction projects.

This resource consists of a variety of options available to address the principle as applicable to the particular circumstances of a project.