Building the Future of Quality Infrastructure provides a timely guide to promoting innovative financing of infrastructure such as transportation networks, water and sanitation facilities, and digital networks vital to realising more resilient and inclusive economies.
This report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) proposes a five-phase method to assess the value of storage and create viable investment conditions, to guide storage deployment for the effective integration of solar and wind power.
This blog explains how integrated, systems-level approaches can help increase the resource efficiency of infrastructure as a key driver of sustainable development.
The Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) highlighted that two new policies integrating inclusive green economy principles have been approved in Mongolia and Peru.
The 2019 Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific by UNESCAP: Ambitions beyond growth reveals that achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 requires an additional annual investment of $1.5 trillion for Asia-Pacific developing countries—equivalent to 5 percent of their combined GDP in 2018. While this seems unfathomable, it means we need a concerted effort driven by an assessment of fiscal space and leveraging the private sector. I want to emphasize this point: the journey towards sustainable development is affordable, if countries work together.
In fact, raising financing for infrastructure should not be complicated. I encourage you to ask yourself four questions and I offer some of my reflections:
This publication is the first stocktaking of what the decarbonization of the world economy means for fossil fuel–dependent countries.