Infrastructure in the 2020s

Many of us have experienced a distorted sense of time during the pandemic, yet I find it sobering that we are already in the third year of the Twenties, a defining decade for infrastructure. The global challenges of the Twenties imply an infrastructure response that amounts to the largest and most complex investment programme in history. The execution of this programme will shape our future world and will require the infrastructure sector, as a matter of urgency, to address significant long-standing challenges of its own. The purpose of this chapter is to present an overview of the strategic agenda that arises from this. It does not attempt to solve it. This is done with the intention of facilitating the ongoing discussion that is needed between an ever-increasing group of stakeholders around this agenda. The issues are long-standing but, set against the context we are in, the consequences of inaction this decade would be profound…

Article by Nick Chism, IPFA Chair

This article has been contributed by Nick Chism, IPFA Chair, for The International Comparative Legal Guide – Project Finance 2022. This article was first published in ICLG – Project Finance