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Posted 01/06/2023
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This is an opportunity to set our sights on climate change. The investment world must take it.
Posted 31/03/2020
Strange, how one challenge can help shine light on another. This is precisely what we’re seeing thanks to COVID-19. As social distancing measures slow business, industry, and tourism around the world, one of the broader, less negative side-effects of the virus is slowly becoming apparent: a sizeable drop in carbon emissions. This serves as a...
Pre-empting growth: a glimpse into the future of aviation
Posted 31/03/2020
The numbers are clear: all over the world, we’re flying more and more. Global air traffic grew 6.5% in 2018, according to the International Air...
Mapping a greener future for our roads
Posted 31/03/2020
The world’s roads are changing. And we’re not just talking about advances in traffic management or route development. This is something even more...
Covid-19, a tsunami or a rogue wave?
Posted 25/03/2020
When a tsunami hits, it’s hard to tell from the initial surge if it’s just a rogue wave or something bigger. Never an analogy felt so appropriate to...
The carbon burden is growing. Air travel needs to change.
Posted 27/02/2020
It’s no surprise that the air travel industry is currently one of the world’s biggest polluters. For context, the sector’s direct emissions now...
Paying for Reliability
Posted 27/02/2020
Tolling roads has often been predicated on the reduced travel time they offer to users. There is a certain willingness to pay for a shorter journey...
2020 ushers in a new Space Race, and this time it’s private
Posted 27/01/2020
It’s now more than fifty years since man’s first landing on the moon. While the past five decades have seen a wealth of innovation and scientific...
On or off the balance sheet? The EPEC pushes for clarity on PPPs
Posted 27/01/2020
There’s no avoiding it: building good infrastructure costs money. Whatever value such projects can – and do – provide in the long run, governments...
Colombia adapts: A new approach to infrastructure post-La Niña
Posted 19/12/2019
It’s not often we see a watershed moment in infrastructure. But that’s precisely what happened in Colombia in 2010-11. A natural phenomenon known as...
The Equator Principles: Time to Take Stock
Posted 19/12/2019
Back in 2003, the World Bank launched a new risk management framework called the Equator Principles. The Principles comprised a set of voluntary...
Musk's Hyperloop: Masterstroke or Fantasy?
Posted 26/11/2019
Planes, trains, automobiles, and boats – the four conventional pillars of travel. But what if there were a fifth? In 2013, Elon Musk revealed his vision for exactly that: an altogether new mode of transportation. Something he called, the “Hyperloop”.
When Risk Brings Reward: Africa's Highway of the Future
Posted 25/11/2019
Ten years ago, investing in African highways seemed a daunting prospect, carrying high levels of risk. Never faint-hearted, the French civil...
So narrow, so far: how long distance point-to-point travel is...
Posted 08/10/2019
Think of long-haul flights, and you’ll probably conjure images of large, wide-body aircraft. Grand-scale transport for grand-scale travel. Due...