This webinar explores Principle #8: Fiscal Sustainability and Innovative Financing from UNEP's International Good Practice Principles for Sustainable Infrastructure. The session includes a technical presentation, “FAST-Infra and the Sustainable Infrastructure Label," and a case study, "Success of East Africa’s Debut Green Bond Issue: The Case of Acorn Holdings."

This webinar explores Principle #7 from UNEP's International Good Practice Principles for Sustainable Infrastructure. It includes a technical presentation, “Employment Impact Assessments," and a case study, “Reassessing Benefits from Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Project in Laos.”

This webinar explores Principle #6, followed by a technical presentation, “Inclusiveness: A Pathway to Sustainable Infrastructure," and case study, “Affordable and sustainable water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) solutions in India.”

This webinar explores Principle #5: Resource Efficiency and Circularity. Given that this session occurs in the middle of the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow, we will have a special focus on the relationship of resource efficiency and circularity to climate change.

This session introduces Principle #4, followed by an introduction to the Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions (NbS). The remainder of the session includes the presentation and discussion of a case study.

Jackson Ewing, Senior Fellow, will present "The Great Infrastructure Game: Why Asia, Europe and America are Competing to Build in the Developing World and What It Means for the Global Climate."

The session provides an introduction to Principle #3, followed by a technical presentation on the biodiversity mitigation hierarchy, which can help infrastructure planners avoid, minimize, and offset infrastructure’s impacts to biodiversity, and a case study detailing how planners in Mongolia used the mitigation hierarchy to create a country-level plan for sustainable mining development

Please join the CSIS Project on Prosperity and Development for a discussion on how climate change can be effectively combatted through the effective implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 13 in the developing world. Elizabeth Losos, Senior Fellow, will be a panelist.

The session provides an introduction to Principle #2, followed by a technical presentation on systems-based tools developed by UNOPS that help infrastructure planners prioritize infrastructure projects and systems that are responsible, resilient, and flexible from the outset.

The session provides an introduction to strategic planning (Principle #1), followed by a technical presentation on strategic environmental assessments (SEA). The remainder of the session includes presentations of two case studies given by practitioners engaged in strategic planning for infrastructure at the national and sector (hydropower) levels.

Martin Doyle, Director of the Water Policy Program, will speak at "Infrastructure Priorities: Water’s Role in Promoting Equitable Planning and Investment," part of the virtual event series Beyond Talking Points: Policy Solutions for Environmental Justice. The event will feature faculty experts from across Duke and the Aspen Institute to discuss the connection between environmental justice and a variety of other policy areas.

This first webinar in the Sustainable Infrastructure: Putting Principle into Practice series includes an introduction to UNEP’s 10 good practice principles for sustainable infrastructure and interactive discussion of the case study approach that we will be using throughout the webinars.

Marking its 75th anniversary, in January 2020, the United Nations (UN) launched a global consultation of 1.5 million survey respondents from over 195 countries and territories with the aim of gathering information about perceptions and aspirations concerning the world we want. In the framework of the Rethinking Diplomacy Program, the Duke Center for International and Global Studies (DUCIGS) has launched a UN75 webinar series to address key issues of global concern highlighted by the global consultation.

Water Policy Program Director Martin Doyle will present, "A Water Policy for the American People Revisited" as the Gilbert F. White Lecture in the Geographical Sciences on January 26.

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.

Join Duke in DC for a Public Policy Roundtable on the environmental effects of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Duke’s Public Policy Roundtables offer an open forum for conversation on the art of the possible in American policymaking.

Trillions of dollars in new infrastructure investments – catalyzed by China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) – is planned to address the developing world’s infrastructure gap. But if not carefully planned, large-scale infrastructure projects can also threaten sensitive ecosystems, vulnerable populations, and the global climate.  A panel discussion will explore what data on past investments can reveal and how they can help direct future investments in sustainable infrastructure. 

The 3rd Yale Symposium on the Impact of Chinese Overseas Investment will explore the ways in which China’s impact on the world is evolving as Chinese companies and investors continue to shape global supply chains and local economies.