4 big infrastructure trends to build a sustainable world While infrastructure is largely publicly funded, private sector financing has played a prominent role in infrastructure development, filling the gap where governments cannot With governments prioritising COVID-related budget expenditures, they will likely start exploring ways to draw more private financing into infrastructure development
5 futures of infrastructure: What will we build by 2100? The infrastructure investment gap continues to widen as more funding is redirected towards defence and artificial intelligence (AI) Meanwhile, deferred maintenance costs escalate and ageing infrastructure becomes increasingly unsafe Strategic materials shortages Shortages of strategic materials may slow down decarbonization efforts
What is the US infrastructure bill? An expert explains President Joe Biden has signed into law the $1 trillion infrastructure bill The ‘monumental’ bill promises vital investment in areas from roads, bridges and trains to broadband access and clean drinking water Here, infrastructure expert Joel Moser talks about what the bill could achieve
Unleashing the Full Potential of Industrial Clusters: Infrastructure . . . This white paper examines the current challenges for clean energy infrastructure and identifies solutions that industrial clusters, transport and logistics industries, and the wider clean energy value chain can jointly explore in order to accelerate its deployment
Why we must invest in sustainable infrastructure Infrastructure forms the backbone of modern economies but there is an estimated $15 trillion infrastructure investment gap until 2040 Private capital is critical to closing this gap but institutional investors allocate an average of only 5% of their portfolios to infrastructure
Closing the global infrastructure investment gap The World Economic Forum is fostering new approaches to infrastructure investment by maximizing private-sector investment in infrastructure This is being done by connecting multilateral development banks and governments with institutional investors such as banks, pension funds, insurance companies, asset managers and sovereign funds
Digital public infrastructure is key to a connected future Preparing data infrastructure for quantum computing advancements that will require new security and processing paradigms Without an intentional, future-oriented approach to DPI, societies risk falling behind in the digital transformation race, exacerbating existing inequalities and inefficiencies
Why AI infrastructure and governance must evolve together Infrastructure demands will diverge significantly as AI systems become more complex, spanning general-purpose foundation models and domain-specific deployments Governance frameworks must be flexible enough to accommodate these variations without compromising sustainability goals
Why we must expand infrastructure for the energy transition To guide infrastructure investments in support of the energy transition, here is a set of principles that can help the world build the 'fit for future' energy infrastructure needed to support the energy systems of tomorrow These principles expand beyond the energy sector to the broader social and economic impacts of infrastructure investments
Overcoming one of the biggest barriers to scaling EVs | World Economic . . . Many future EV drivers will not have access to private parking for charger installation, Scaling Investment in EV Charging Infrastructure: A Policy Roadmap for Cities points out For example, in the US, just 48% of people have access to off-street parking where a charger could be installed It is a similar situation in the European Union