G20 Global Infrastructure Hub's Marie Lam-Frendo, CEO, on Circular Economy

19/08/2021 22 min Episodio 15
G20 Global Infrastructure Hub's Marie Lam-Frendo, CEO, on Circular Economy

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Episode Synopsis

Marie introduces the GI Hub created by the G20 in 2014 and how they support the progression of the infrastructure sector (00:24), how climate change and the funding shortfall are significant challenges to infrastructure (03:15), ‘brownfield’ Vs ‘greenfield’ and climate mitigation of projects (07:15), driving a sustainability-led infrastructure future (09:54), how infrastructure technology AKA ‘InfraTec’ is no longer a nice-to-have with a water case study example (11:20), filling the funding gap needs to start with government vision for projects to leverage the private sector and improving the PPP model (15:40), how infrastructure has the power to transition to Net Zero carbon neutrality via ‘Circular Economy’ (18:50).