Infrastructure &
Quality and Finance
Unlocking financing opportunities and setting high-quality benchmarks for sustainable, resilient, and regenerative infrastructure projects.
Infrastructure faces mounting challenges worldwide. Aging systems and poorly planned developments leave communities vulnerable to economic, social, and environmental risks. Rapid urbanisation, environmental pressures, and climate disasters intensify these vulnerabilities, demanding resilient and sustainable solutions.
Despite the urgent need, financial flows remain inadequate, fragmented, and often misaligned with the global priorities.
Mobilizing private capital for sustainable infrastructure remains challenging due to high perceived risks, significant upfront costs, and long payback periods, resulting in persistent financing gaps. Financiers struggle to identify high-quality, bankable projects that balance financial returns with positive impact, further stalling progress. Meanwhile, governments and developers frequently face hurdles in preparing projects and attracting capital due to limited technical capacity and poor creditworthiness, leading to weak project pipelines.
The absence of consistent frameworks to define and measure quality infrastructure that balances sustainability, resilience, and social inclusivity adds to the complexity.
By offering tailored solutions that enable effective financing, establish quality benchmarks, and support innovative approaches to thrive, GIB empowers financiers, infrastructure developers, and governments to create future-ready infrastructure that drives economic growth, promotes social equity, ensures environmental protection, and bridges gaps in infrastructure quality and access to finance.
GIB channels investments toward sustainable, resilient, and regenerative infrastructure to ensure that more quality infrastructure is built to meet future needs. Given the annual shortfall of $2.5–3 trillion in sustainable infrastructure financing globally, GIB is committed to removing obstacles that hinder large-scale deployment. By unlocking private capital and developing innovative finance mechanisms, GIB accelerates transformative change in the infrastructure landscape.
By establishing global standards like the FAST-Infra Label, we streamline sustainability assessments for investors and foster trust in sustainable infrastructure as an asset class. We enable developers and operators to leverage the positive impact of sustainable infrastructure to attract and engage investors who seek to contribute to sustainable outcomes.
GIB provides comprehensive support throughout the project lifecycle. We assist in project preparation, ensuring that infrastructure initiatives are well-structured, financially viable, and aligned with sustainability goals. Our risk mitigation strategies help de-risk projects, making them more attractive to private capital. Additionally, we offer technical assistance, equipping project developers with the expertise needed to meet ESG standards while ensuring long-term resilience and performance.
By working with financial institutions and global public-private partners, GIB not only addresses today’s challenges but also lays the foundation for future-ready infrastructure systems that deliver lasting societal and environmental value. Through the Infrastructure in a Changing World global event series, we bring together key decision-makers from the public and private sectors to foster collaboration, accelerate sustainable infrastructure investment worldwide, and drive policy discussions.
