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This week the Australian British Chamber of Commerce, the GI Hub and KPMG co-hosted an intimate infrastructure roundtable with the Lord Mayor of the City of London and senior Australian private sector participants, industry associations, think tanks, government, and infrastructure agencies.

Rapid and sharp interest rate hikes in 2022 lowered the market value of existing infrastructure debt locked-in at the previous lower rates. Still, the attractiveness of infrastructure debt increased among private investors on account of its lower credit risk than corporate debt and increasing investors’ risk aversion

Amidst rising interest rates and soaring inflation, infrastructure debt is an increasingly attractive investment strategy for private investors. Alex Murray, Vice President, Research Insights, Preqin explores this trend and what it means for infrastructure investments.
Post-COP15, GI Hub's Strategic Adviser Denis Crevier explores some meaningful outcomes for biodiversity and its influence on infrastructure.

Infrastructure equities provide stronger protection against inflation shocks than the broader equity market. During the rapid inflation shocks in 2022, the return on infrastructure equities was more resilient than that on global equities, which drove private fundraising for infrastructure to record levels.

A summary of the first G20 Infrastructure Working Group meeting under the Indian G20 Presidency in January 2023

The Coalition for Climate Resilient Investment (CCRI) created the Physical Climate Risk Assessment Methodology in response to investor demand for comprehensive solutions to improve the integration of physical climate risks into investment appraisal practices.
The Investor Leadership Network created this playbook to help institutional investors better assess and incorporate inclusion into portfolios. It provides the business case for inclusion, fundamental and advanced inclusion metrics, and case studies of the metrics being used.
The Blue Dot Network aims to help mobilise private sector investment by identifying and encouraging market-driven, transparent, and sustainable infrastructure projects. It establishes a voluntary, private-sector focused, government-supported project-level certification that aligns with the G20 Principles for Quality Infrastructure Investment, the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) Performance Standards, the Equator Principles, the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, and the OECD Recommendation on the Governance of Infrastructure.
We need more investment in economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable infrastructure, but there is real danger that investment by both the public and private sectors may slip backward
The current energy crisis underscores the urgency to scale up green infrastructure investment.


GI Hub’s Sam Barr, explores why the time has come for a long-term approach to investment in health infrastructure.
At COP27 this week, GI Hub CEO, Marie Lam-Frendo moderated a panel session on Accelerating, Targeting, and Blending Sustainable Investment at the Sustainable Markets Initiative Terra Carta Action Forum.
The G20/GI Hub Framework on How to Best Leverage Private Sector Participation to Scale Up Sustainable Infrastructure, which sets out opportunity areas and actions for the G20 to enable the private sector to scale up its investments in sustainable infrastructure.
This paper from EDHECinfra explores how institutional investors should incorporate ESG elements into the financial management of their portfolios.
This report leverages the experience of NGFS members and observers, as well as a survey of 25 central banks and 24 financial supervisors, to examine key challenges related to market transparency in green finance - particularly with regard to taxonomies; green external review and assessment; and climate transition metrics, frameworks, and market products. It also aims to inform a broad dialogue with market participants to find potential solutions to policy challenges.
The LTIIA's report on Climate-Resilient Infrastructure: How to scale up private investment examines the current state of climate-resilient infrastructure investment and brings forward recommendations and proposals.