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Global infrastructure trends: Developments in sustainability

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Global infrastructure trends: Developments in sustainability

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[1] United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 2018 Revision of World Urbanization Prospects, 2018: https://population.un.org/wup/.

[2] United Nations Climate Action, “Cities and Pollution contribute to climate change,” accessed in July 2020: https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/cities-pollution.shtml.

[3]  Deblina Saha, “Low-carbon infrastructure: an essential solution to climate change?” World Bank Blogs, 5 Apr. 2018: https://blogs.worldbank.org/ppps/low-carbon-infrastructure-essential-solution-climate-change.

[4] United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, “Water and cities,” International Decade for Action, ‘Water for Life,’ 2005–2015, accessed in July 2020: https://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/water_cities.shtml..

[5] United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, Economic Losses, Poverty & Disasters, 1998–2017:  https://www.unisdr.org/2016/iddr/IDDR2018_Economic%20Losses.pdf.

[6] United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs: Sustainable Development, “The 17 Goals,” accessed in July 2020: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/?menu=1300.

[7] European Commission press release, “The European Green Deal sets out how to make Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, boosting the economy, improving people’s health and quality of life, caring for nature, and leaving no one behind,” 11 Dec. 2019: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_19_6691.

[8] Alan Livsey, “Lex in depth: the $900bn cost of ‘stranded energy assets’,” Financial Times, 4 Feb. 2020: https://www.ft.com/content/95efca74-4299-11ea-a43a-c4b328d9061c.

[9]  Vitor Gaspar, David Amaglobeli, Mercedes Garcia-Escribano, Delphine Prady and Mauricio Soto, IMF Staff Discussion Note: Fiscal Policy and Development: Human, Social, and Physical Investment for the SDGs, 23 January 2019: https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/Staff-Discussion-Notes/Issues/2019/01/18/Fiscal-Policy-and-Development-Human-Social-and-Physical-Investments-for-the-SDGs-46444.  

[10]  EABW Editor, “How To Scale Up Sustainable Infrastructure,” EABW News, 6 Jan. 2020: https://www.busiweek.com/how-to-scale-up-sustainable-infrastructure/.

[11] Pascal Mittermaier, “The Coming Rise of Urban Infrastructure: Greening the Gray,” HuffPost, 31 Aug. 2017: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-coming-rise-of-urban-infrastructure-greening-the_b_59a85788e4b00ed1aec9a677

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[13] John Bates and David Leibling, “Spaced Out: Perspectives on parking policy,” The Royal Automobile Club Foundation for Motoring, July 2012: https://www.racfoundation.org/assets/rac_foundation/content/downloadables/spaced_out-bates_leibling-jul12.pdf.

[14] Julian Kettle, “Mining sector faces energy transition conundrum,” Financial Times, 18 Feb. 2020: https://www.ft.com/content/36ef7ab2-4f44-11ea-95a0-43d18ec715f5.

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[18] Construction Climate Challenge, “Stockholm Metro Extension project reduces carbon from planning to completion,” 28 Aug. 2017: https://constructionclimatechallenge.com/2017/08/28/stockholm-metro-extension-project-reduces-carbon-from-planning-to-completion/.

[19] PwC and Global Infrastructure Facility, Increasing private sector investment into sustainable city infrastructure, January 2020: https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/industries/assets/pwc-increasing-private-sector-investment-into-sustainable-city-infrastructure.pdf.

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