Learn about the importance of sustainable infrastructure, challenges you may face in coordinating investment for sustainable infrastructure projects, and potential solutions to alleviate current obstacles.
Download the full report to learn about the global ecosystem of initiatives focused on overcoming obstacles to investment in sustainable infrastructure—and how to use them to address the sustainable investment funding gap.
The private sector, specifically institutional investors such as pension funds, investment managers and insurance companies, are potentially a significant source of funding for sustainable infrastructure projects. Despite an environment of record low interest rates and a large pool of global savings, most countries have chronic infrastructure deficits.
The funding gap is reflective of the range of existing barriers facing private-sector financing of sustainable infrastructure, such as:
“Building a Bridge to Sustainable Infrastructure” considers the influence of the global initiatives focused on addressing these obstacles to private sector investment in sustainable infrastructure. Since 2013, we have seen activities targeted at influencing the investor mindset gain significant momentum — a critical development given that investor allocations must sharply rise to close the funding gap.
A key finding of the report is that while there are many initiatives working to promote investment in sustainable infrastructure there is a need for improved collaboration. The report calls for four main steps:
Shared research between Mercer and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
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