Integrating benefits in sustainable infrastructure

When planning and investing in infrastructure projects, innovative cities bundle together, and synergistically achieve, a larger set of overarching objectives in the social, economic, environmental, health and governance realms. These objectives include economic development, job creation, reduced inequality, adaptation to climate change, air quality improvement, community empowerment, gender equity, or food security. 

Integrating multiple benefits in climate infrastructure projects tends to enhance their political and financial/fiscal viability, scalability, and replicability. PPFs support the production of evidence about the wider impacts of climate projects. Identifying and planning for benefits during early project development stages increase the project’s success, both in delivering positive environment and human-centred impacts, as well as in mobilising political buy-in and connecting with finance.