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Sustainable Infrastructure Investment

Sustainable Infrastructure Investment. Project Overview. Amal-Lee Amin. OUTLINE. Sustainable infrastructure: Critical to development goals Project overview and timeline Your opportunity to get involved. SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT Critical to development goals.

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Sustainable Infrastructure Investment

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  1. Sustainable Infrastructure Investment Project Overview Amal-Lee Amin

  2. OUTLINE • Sustainable infrastructure: Critical to development goals • Project overview and timeline • Your opportunity to get involved

  3. SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTCritical to development goals • Cumulative infrastructure investment requirements are significant. • Incorporating sustainability considerations • Costs more (short term) but pays off • Critical to SDGs & Paris Agreement • Public budgets are too constrained to fill this gap • More private sector investment required, though barriers exist • Development banks have a key role to play in knocking barriers down

  4. PROJECT OVERVIEWPartnership – IDB and Mercer • IDB is committed to driving sustainable and resilient development • To inform our strategy on sustainable infrastructure development, we are embarking on a project with Mercer Investments • Global consulting firm with 2,600+ clients and $9.1 trillion under advice • Significant private markets experience • Project will have three components, each of which will play a role in informing IDB’s future strategy • Understand the global ecosystem of initiatives focused on propelling sustainable infrastructure development • Gather the perspectives of internal IDB experts on sustainable infrastructure, including definitions and objectives • Explore 10 case studies where investors have selected infrastructure investments which do and do not display sustainability characteristics

  5. DEVELOPING OUR PERSPECTIVEThree project components

  6. SUSTAINABLE INFRAESTRUCTURE INVESTMENTProject timeline and goals Understand current industry activity Develop internal framing for future work practitioner Review of barriers & opportunities • Strategy to help ‘close the sustainable infrastructure investment gap’

  7. SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTWe welcome your involvement Are there initiatives you would like to add to the landscape review? Are you an infrastructure investor and would like to be interviewed? Are there particular infrastructure case studies you would like to suggest we include? Are there other initiatives or research projects this project should tie to? Please contact karen.lockridge@mercer.com if you would like to share an answer to one of the above questions. We look forward to the opportunity to collaborate with you on this initiative.

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