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Marie Lam-Frendo will step down from her role as GI Hub CEO as her term concludes.
This week, the GI Hub joined nine other global organisations in issuing a call to action to heads of state, policymakers, and multilateral development bank (MDB) officials to scale up private investment in emerging markets and developing countries (EMDCs) to fight climate change and deliver on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The GI Hub has today published Infrastructure Monitor 2023. This year’s edition reveals the mixed state of private investment in infrastructure, where positive trends like strong investment, growing use of sustainable finance, and resilient financial performance exist alongside challenges like low levels of capital raised and persistent disparities between high-income countries and other countries.
A GI Hub program that brought together eight multilateral development banks in a partnership to accelerate technology solutions for sustainable roads in emerging markets has been featured in the non-profit, climate-focused publication Grist.
The Global Infrastructure Hub (GI Hub) has formally stepped into the role of Secretariat for the CCRI Legacy Programme.
The aim of this report is to increase knowledge about cross-border transport infrastructure planning in the Nordic countries by identifying barriers, highlighting opportunities, and proposing measures to facilitate the planning of cross-border transport infrastructure.
Cross-border transport infrastructure planning in the Nordic Region - An introduction (2023)
Nordregio Report
The Global Infrastructure Hub is negotiating new, long-term partner hosting of its activities to deliver enduring impact.
In a new research publication from the EDHEC Infrastructure & Private Assets Research Institute, entitled "Low Tide, Benchmarking Risks in Infrastructure Investments: What the data showed about Thames Water," we ask what investors in Thames Water in the UK would have learned about the risk of their investment and its likely market value had they compared its characteristics to market and peer group data.
Birkdale is a coastal locality in the City of Redland, Queensland Australia. Jacobs was engaged by Redland City Council to provide social impact and social value measures for input into the Master Plan for the 62-hectare Birkdale Community Precinct.
The 2023 Infrastructure Market Capacity report explains that a sustained focus on improving the productivity of the construction sector, increasing material and labour supply while continuing to actively manage demand, are crucial to the future success of the industry.
The Edinburgh City Centre Transformation Program is a multi-million-dollar investment to improve community, sustainability, and cultural life. It is an ambitious plan for a vibrant and people-focused capital city centre, one that creates attractive, liveable public spaces, with sustainable and active travel made as easy as possible and with people’s overall health, wellbeing, and happiness at centre-stage.
Today we released two new supplements to our Infrastructure Monitor report, focusing on the role of blended finance and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors in infrastructure investment. These latest updates, developed in partnership with Convergence and GRESB, offer a comprehensive examination of both areas, providing valuable insights for infrastructure professionals.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) presents a significant opportunity for digital transformation in the infrastructure (architecture, engineering, and construction) industry. This sector, traditionally reliant on manual labor, mechanical technology, and traditional business models, has seen limited innovations in productivity compared to many other global industries. However, new digital technologies, particularly InfraTech solutions like drone technology, offer a promising pathway to revolutionize this industry.
The number of primary private infrastructure transactions increased by 18% in 2022, the strongest annual growth since 2017, largely driven by strong investor appetite for projects supporting the clean energy transition. However, growth was mostly being driven by high-income countries in North America and Western Europe, with private investment activity in middle- and low-income countries seeing a lot less momentum with volumes on par with pre-COVID levels.
Infrastructure Monitor insights
The Global Infrastructure Hub is negotiating new, long-term partner hosting of its activities to deliver enduring impact.
Climate change poses a significant threat to infrastructure, with rising sea levels, extreme weather phenomena, and escalating temperatures posing substantial physical risks. These hazards can lead to the degradation of crucial infrastructure assets, undermining social, economic, and environmental stability. Recent analysis by EDHECInfra, as featured in the Global Infrastructure Hub's Infrastructure Monitor report, underscores the scale of the situation. Projections based on current climate and policy scenarios indicate that by 2050, infrastructure assets could see a net value decline of 4.4% on average, and up to 26.7% in the most severe scenarios. This depreciation is a direct consequence of the lack of resilience of global infrastructure to the effects of climate change. The consequences of inaction are far-reaching, affecting not just the financial performance of assets, but also the economic, environmental, and social fabric of communities worldwide. One promising strategy to mitigate these risks involves the adoption of a systemic resilience metrics (SRM) framework tailored specifically to infrastructure.
Regional private investment in infrastructure has seen divergent trends in the post-COVID era, with Western Europe and North America emerging as the two strongest performers, followed by Latin America. Meanwhile Asia, while maintaining relatively stable investment as a share of regional GDP, has experienced the sharpest decline in its share of global private investment in infrastructure, as Western Europe and North America expand their shares. Other regions have seen weaker investment in the post-COVID era (Africa, Oceania, Middle East), or remained stagnant (Eastern Europe).
The World Bank and the GI Hub announced the GI Hub will join The World Bank’s Infrastructure Practice Group as an associated trust fund to the Public Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) . In connection with this shift, the Global Infrastructure Hub will cease to operate as a standalone not-for-profit organisation.
The World Bank and the Global Infrastructure Hub (GI Hub) are pleased to announce that the GI Hub will soon be joining The World Bank's Infrastructure Practice Group as an associated trust fund to the Public Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF)
