Environmentally sustainable and climate-resilient infrastructure
The magnitude and urgency of the climate crisis calls for a new holistic public governance approach to infrastructure to make the green transition happen. This implies the mobilisation of all public policy and expenditure tools for an effective green transition, taking present and future environmental impacts of today’s policy decisions into account.
Why is this important?
With infrastructure increasingly playing a major role in governments’ environmental agendas, governments will require the right set of tools to navigate difficult policy choices in the short- and medium-term. The green transition will depend to a large extent on governments’ ability to deliver environmentally sustainable infrastructure. Strengthening the quality of governments’ steering is thus key to deliver on greener and cleaner infrastructure targets nationally and internationally, and to engage with the private sector and the civil society to work collectively towards achieving these objectives.
How to guide delivery of environmentally sustainable and climate-resilient infrastructure?
Country case studies
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London’s congestion charge and low emission zones
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Engagement of indigenous communities in the Arctic
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Evolving incentives for zero-emission vehicles
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Zero-Growth Goal for major urban areas
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Law on Alternative Fuels
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Sustainable water management plans
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Sponge cities to tackle heat and flooding
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“KlimaTicket” to promote low-carbon mobility
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Innovative mobility services
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Green infra (Finnish Environment Institute, 2013)
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U.S. International Development Finance Corporation
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Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
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Commercial Law Development Program
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Multi-criteria analysis manual
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Waterford Greenway
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Milan’s 2020 Adaptation Strategy
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National Development Plan 2021-2030
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Infrastructure Development Bank
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Investing in Canada Plan
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Canada Infrastructure Bank
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Consultation to balance priorities (UNEP, 2021)
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Fiscally sustainable wind farms (UNEP, 2021)
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Clean Energy Finance Corporation (GIH, 2019)
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John Hart Generating Station (GIH, 2019)
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Mersin Integrated Health Campus (GIH, 2019)
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PPP Prisons Program (Lots 1-3) (GIH, 2019)
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Pan Am Games Athletes’ Village (GIH, 2019)
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Milton District Hospital Expansion (GIH, 2019)
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Samuel De Champlain Bridge (GIH, 2021)
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Infrastructure Economic Account (GIH, 2021)
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Incheon Bridge Project (GIH, 2021)