TF7 – Infrastructure Investment and Financing
BUILDING A NEW SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY. INVESTING IN INFRASTRUCTURE FOR DISTRIBUTION AND WELL-BEING
ABSTRACT
Global development and environment talks were disrupted by the COVID-19 crisis, but the year 2021 resonates with renewed ambitions, with infrastructure investments a macroeconomic and geopolitical priority of recovery agendas. Yet, it cannot be about investing trillions in infrastructure for growth as after the 2008 global financial crisis. After over a decade of underfunding of social infrastructure and facing exponentially detrimental environment impacts of infrastructure connectivity, the world is in need of cooperation towards new infrastructure solutions focusing on redistribution and well-being.
AUTHORS
I. Abdullaev
Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC)
S. Akhmedov
Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC)
R. Almarzoqi Albqami
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Y. Autret
Project Biodiversity and Infrastructure Opportunities for European Transport Network
(BISON)
R. Bartlett
Climate resilience and risk management, WWF
N.J.A. Buchoud
Grand Paris Alliance for Sustainable Investments
M. Chakrabarti
Research and Information Systems for Developing Countries (RIS); and Centre for Sustainability, O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU)
M. Cohen
The New School
E. Croci
Centre for Research on Geography, Resources, Environment, Energy & Networks (GREEN), Bocconi University
J. Hauert
GIZ GmbH
I. Karapetyants
Institute of International Transport Communications, Russian University of Transport
E. Losos
Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University
R. Mariatul Qibthiyyah
Institute for Economic and Social Research, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Indonesia (LPEM-UI)
K. Newman
Sustainable infrastructure and public sector initiatives, WWF
B. Nofal
CARI- Argentine Council for International Relations
B. Orr
Phd Researcher, The New School
T. Sonobe
Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)
C. Wertli
Swiss Re
