Sustainable infrastructure creates jobs and improves daily life, delivering better transport, more reliable power, and cleaner cities. When businesses commit to sustainability, they see measurable gains: more stable markets, stronger customer trust, and long-term value that benefits both people and planet.
What we do
The Sustainable Infrastructure Advisory (SIA) provides IFC clients and partners with expert sustainability advice that enables infrastructure investments with strong development impact. We work with investors, companies, and subnational governments in emerging markets, helping to design and implement sustainability solutions that create jobs, support access to clean energy, catalyze economic growth, strengthen asset and community resilience, support a healthier planet, and foster a more equitable society.
How we collaborate with clients and partners
SIA works with clients and partners across multiple sustainability priorities:
- Climate: Support companies’ climate strategies by providing decarbonization solutions, climate risk and resilience roadmaps, just transition plans, and nature-based solutions.
- Social Inclusion: Strengthen companies’ capacity to develop and adopt diverse, equitable, and inclusive products and solutions in their workforces, supply chains, communities, and customer bases.
- Digital Data Governance and Accountability: Support companies and cities with strategies and implementation of sustainability initiatives that leverage digital data and technologies, such as AI.
- Local Benefit Sharing: Boost companies’ job creation and benefit sharing including through local stakeholder engagement, community investment strategy design, and local economic development projects.
- Sustainability-Linked Finance: Guide companies on developing climate and social strategies, setting key performance indicators (KPIs) and targets, and advancing sustainable finance instruments.
The team manages ifcsia.org, a knowledge platform for practitioners working at the intersection of sustainability and infrastructure.
