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- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- How to build smarter and more sustainable infrastructure
There is a growing need to transform how infrastructure is planned, delivered and managed as urbanization, digitalization and climate change increasingly impact the world In this environment, developing more sustainable infrastructure will require a change in how construction projects are planned, delivered and managed
- 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
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