Leveraging PPPs to tackle climate change – A new resource
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Authored by: Susanne Foerster and Jenny Chao
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With COVID-19 still dominating the news it may be easy to overlook another global crisis: the unprecedented extreme climate events during the past year that can be linked to climate change: longer, more severe wildfires in California; prolonged, intense droughts in South America; widespread flooding in Asia and Africa; back-to-back hurricanes in the Caribbean; and heat waves in Europe and the Middle East.
According to the World Bank’s Private Participation in Infrastructure – Investment in Low-Carbon Infrastructure report, approximately 70 percent of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions emanate from infrastructure construction and operations. At the same time, extreme weather events or changing patterns can bring transport, electricity, and water networks to a halt—or lead to longer-term gradual deterioration of infrastructure assets with severe economic and human impacts for communities and countries. With economies across the globe in urgent need to build new or rehabilitate aging infrastructure, we need to ensure these investments are innovative, low-carbon, energy-efficient, and resilient to the effects of climate change.
But the price tag is high. The World Bank Group's Action Plan on Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience points to estimates of additional needs for adaptation alone that range widely from $30 billion to $100 billion a year by 2030. Given these massive capital requirements and the need for innovation and new technology, private expertise and investment, including infrastructure finance through public-private partnerships (PPPs), is essential to spur global growth and tackle climate change.
Over the past years, the infrastructure and PPP community has filled knowledge gaps related to climate risk and developed tools to ensure they are adequately assessed and addressed in PPP projects and frameworks. In addition, countries have increasingly put legal and policy frameworks in place that facilitate the shift towards greener and more robust infrastructure development. In particular, more and more PPP projects worldwide are now deliberately designed to minimize their carbon footprints, ensure resilience in the face of extreme weather events and gradual climate change, and take into account the impact of climate change on the livelihoods of adjacent communities.
How can you keep up with the latest trends and most relevant legal resources for climate-smart PPPs? The new climate-smart PPPs section on the PPP Resource Center draws together documents, tools, and platforms relevant to these topics on one site. Infrastructure and PPP practitioners now have free access to a database of more than 150 links organized around the PPP project cycle, the PPP legal and regulatory framework, as well as specific sectors already used by countries around the world to decarbonize PPP projects and to make them more sustainable and resilient against the consequences of climate change.
Some examples include:
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