About Us
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ABOUT IFC’S SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE ADVISORY
Increased investments in sustainable infrastructure are critical to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Economic growth needs to be combined with positive impact on people and the planet, and sustainability efforts must be linked to companies’ business success.
The IFC Sustainable Infrastructure (SI) Advisory team helps companies build their climate and social inclusion capabilities to strengthen their environmental, social, and governance credibility. Through strategic partnerships, we support companies with offerings that include diagnostics, analysis, and advice on strategy and implementation.
IFC’s SI Advisory works with clients and partners across multiple sustainability priorities:
- Climate: Support companies’ climate strategies by providing decarbonization pathways, risk and resilience roadmaps, just transition processes and plans, and nature-based solutions.
- Gender: Strengthen companies’ capacity to improve gender balance in the workforce, leadership, supply chain, communities, and customer base.
- Digital inclusion and accountability: Enhance companies’ digital capabilities with inclusive digital technology and data transparency efforts that increase accountability.
- Local benefit sharing: Boost companies’ benefit sharing and enhance their social license to operate, including through local stakeholder engagement, community investment strategy design, and local economic development projects.
- Sustainability-linked finance: Advise companies on developing climate and social strategies, setting key performance indicators (KPIs) and targets, and advancing sustainability-linked finance opportunities.
Click here to find out more on IFC’s work in Infrastructure.
Click here for information on IFC’s Environmental and Social Performance Standards defining IFC clients’ responsibilities for managing environmental and social risks.
About CommDev
CommDev is the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) curated repository for information around sustainability efforts and impact infrastructure and natural resources sectors. Managed by IFC’s Sustainable Infrastructure (SI) Advisory, it hosts content around SI Advisory’s areas of work, including our programs and projects.
CommDev draws from the diverse experience of IFC, clients, on-the-ground practitioners, partner institutions and industry alliances to present a range of thought leadership, including multimedia content, blogs, and reports. These exemplify best practices and offer guidelines for private, public and civil society actors.
We welcome the opportunity to connect with other practitioners working towards sustainable development in infrastructure and natural resources and related industries. To submit content to CommDev, for questions or suggestions, please contact us.
We would like to thank the Governments of Canada, Hungary, Japan, and Norway for contributing to the development of this website and its content.
