Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions

How Can We Harmonize and Disseminate Sustainable Infrastructure Tools, Frameworks, and Standards?

Date and Time
Wednesday, December 9, 2020 - 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. EST
Location
Online Webinar

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Please join the inaugural Sustainable Infrastructure Community of Learners (SI-CoL) online strategic discussion on Wednesday December 9, 9 a.m. EST/ 3 p.m. CET. This will be an interactive event.
 
Hear short presentations by John Hauert (GIZ), Rowan Palmer (UNEP), and Lori Kerr (GIF and World Bank) introducing the Sustainable Infrastructure Tool Navigator and FAST-Infra. Then join in a strategic discussion on how these and other sustainable infrastructure tools and standards can improve capacity development for sustainable infrastructure.

Speakers

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John Hauert, Lead for Sustainable Infrastructure, Emerging Markets Sustainability Dialogues (EMSD), GIZ, and Rowan Palmer, Lead for Sustainable Infrastructure Partnership, UNEP, will discuss the expansion of the Sustainable Infrastructure Tool Navigator, a web-based platform that helps identify and provide access to relevant tools to successfully integrate sustainability along the infrastructure lifecycle.

Lori Kerr, Senior Infrastructure Finance Specialist at the Global Infrastructure Facility and the World Bank, will discuss FAST-Infra’s (Finance to Accelerate the Sustainable Transition-Infrastructure) new infrastructure labelling system aimed at transforming sustainable infrastructure into a mainstream, liquid asset class and other harmonization efforts of MDBs under the G20.