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With the world on track to heat up by 2.4C, we wanted to focus on how built assets will be affected, the consequences for owners and what needs to change as we develop infra for a more hostile planet.
Capable of generating a yearly $500bn in benefits and savings, IISD’s Richard Florizone makes the case for nature-based infrastructure as an asset class.
SWEN Capital’s Isabelle Combarel and Thibault Richon outline the systemic approach the Paris-based firm is taking to address climate risk.
Over the last decade, the world has spent trillions of dollars trying to decarbonise. Despite this, emissions are still increasing.
Hydrogen can be a key energy source in the quest to reach net zero.
A river diversion project on the border between North Dakota and Minnesota marks the first sustainable P3 in the US.
Significant climate change is now all but inevitable, posing an existential threat not only to infra assets but to the owners and managers of those assets.
Renewable energy capacity totalled 2,802GW in 2020, a 10.2% increase on 2019. But clean power generation is just one weapon against climate change.
As the effects of climate change threaten our very survival, ensuring access to water is quickly becoming one of the defining issues of the 21st century, writes Gregory Smith, president and chief executive officer at Instar.
European infrastructure managers share their hopes for the legacy of the latest global summit on climate change.