What can the G20 do to foster sustainable infrastructure?
Improving the wellbeing of billions of people globally depends on building more and better infrastructure, including for transportation, for access to energy and sanitation. This infrastructure build-up must be sustainable, as otherwise, it can have detrimental effects on people and the planet by destroying local livelihoods as much as the climate and ecosystems. Estimates are that additional investments of $15 trillion in infrastructure must be mobilized until 2040 to meet sustainable development goals; leaving critical funding gaps for infrastructure projects in the implementation of the Agenda 2030. The implementation of the G20 Quality Infrastructure agenda and the promotion of infrastructure as an asset class are meant to bridge global infrastructure funding gaps and attract private sector investments in support of sustainable infrastructure projects. As these approaches are vividly debated, latest research on managing the spillover effects of infrastructure projects, in particular in emerging economies, might pave the way for less doctrinal and more practical infrastructure policies, improving the connectivity between global and domestic finance, including private equity. The panel will raise and discuss proposals and solutions to promote a recoupling of private and public finance and accelerate the implementation of sustainable infrastructure, as a common issue for the G20 Sherpa Track and Development Working Group, the Finance Track and the Infrastructure Working Group, and relevant G20 Engagement Groups. It will also discuss how sustainable infrastructure investments can help build a way for the Agenda 2030, including in response to the covid19 and other such pandemic risks.
Keynote
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Keynote
Haifa Abdulaziz Al Mogrin
Chair, G20 Development Working Group
Panel
Raja Almarzoqi
King AbdulAziz University, Saudi Arabia
Sachin Chaturvedi
RIS, India
Lori Kerr
World Bank
Carlo Secchi
ISPI, Italy
Moderator: Declan Curry
Journalist
Vision Statement
Naoyuki Yoshino
T20 Co-Chair Japan
Policy Recommendations, Policy Briefs and Articles
Policy Briefs on Infrastructure Investment and Financing
Policy Briefs contain recommendations and visions and cover policy ares that are of interest to G20 policymakers. The majority of the Policy Briefs has been developed by a corresponding T20 Task Force.
T20 Recommendations Report: Infrastructure Investment and Financing
Compiled by Juliane Stein-Zalai (IfW Kiel) and Simon Wolf (Global Solutions Initiative)
Building the Future of Quality Infrastructure
By Asian Development Bank Institute with contributions from Beatriz Nofal
Quality Infrastructure Investment and Land Trust in the face of COVID-19 crisis
By Naoyuki Yoshino (ADBI), Nella Sri Hendriyetty (ADBI)
Are Slums More Vulnerable to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Mumbai
By Shaonlee Patranabis, Sahil Gandhi, and Vaidehi Tande (Brookings)
Elaborating Transportation Policy during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Indonesia
By Alloysius Joko Purwanto (ERIA)
Infrastructure for Growth Post COVID-19
By Alberto Belladonna (ISPI) and Alessandro Gili (ISPI)
Making the case for G20 action on urbanization – Global Solutions Journal
Housing amid Covid-19: Policy responses and challenges
OECD Policy Responses to Coronavirus (COVID-19)