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A webinar series presented by the GI Hub and International Finance Corporation

                               

How will we fund the infrastructure of the future?

This is the central question the GI Hub and International Finance Corporation (IFC) aim to help answer in New Deals: Funding solutions for the future of infrastructure. This webinar series features global project teams sharing the practical solutions and funding innovations they have used to create bankable projects while attracting private investment, de-risking the investment, optimising asset value, and achieving sustainable development goals.

Each session will highlight project characteristics that enabled successful completion. The discussion will also encompass factors in the enabling environment – such as policy and regulatory factors – that contributed to success or had to be overcome. We invite you to join us for the series.

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This webinar series is open to everyone. Find recordings of prior sessions and links to register for upcoming sessions below. To be notified when registration opens for future sessions, subscribe to our twice-monthly infrastructure newsletter.

 

Find recordings of prior sessions below, and register now for Session 3 on Thursday, 18 November 2021.

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Session 3: Infrastructure for recovery: Innovation for de-risking greenfield investment

18 NOVEMBER 2021

3:00AM EDT / 9:00AM CEST / 7:00PM AEST

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Speaker and session details will be announced shortly for this session.

Find more solutions and case studies in our Innovative Funding and Financing initiative

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This GI Hub initiative aims to help governments structure bankable projects that attract private investment. It includes a large and growing library of global, real project case studies.

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This GI Hub initiative aims to help governments structure bankable projects that attract private investment. It includes a large and growing library of global, real project case studies.

View the initiative

Session 4: Optimising brownfield asset value

JANUARY 2022

DATE AND TIME TO BE ANNOUNCED

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Session 5: Leveraging blended/concessional finance

FEBRUARY 2022

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Session 6: Financing sustainability

MARCH 2022

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Session 2: Green recovery for cities: What role can the private sector play?

6 October 2021

8:00AM EDT / 2:00PM CEST / 11:00PM 

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What role can the private sector play in a green transition? How is green financing implemented, and what are the current green financing trends? How does the policy environment incentivise the green transition?

These are a few of the key questions our panellists will explore in this webinar, which focuses on solutions and lessons learnt in the Belgrade Waste-to-Energy Project in Serbia and the Corsan Water Supply, Efficiency, and Resilience Project in Brazil.

The Belgrade Waste-to-Energy Project is cleaning up one of Europe’s largest uncontrolled landfills and constructing a new, sustainable waste-management complex. It is one of the first large-scale, bankable, private sector waste-to-energy projects in emerging markets.

Despite abundant surface freshwater, only 84% of Brazil’s people have access to potable water, and only 50% have access to sewerage. The Corsan Water Supply, Efficiency, and Resilience Project is leveraging private financing to address losses in water distribution and mitigate climate change risks.

Moderators and panellists

This session will be co-moderated by Mr Henri Blas, Chief Content Officer, GI Hub and Ms Cheryl Edleson Hanway, Regional Industry Senior Manager for Infrastructure, International Finance Corporation.

Representatives of the Belgrade Waste-to-Energy Project, Corsan Water, and Sitawi – a leading sustainable financing second opinion provider in Brazil – will join us as panellists for the session:

  • Mr Stephane Heddesheimer, CEO of Recycling and Recovery, Suez
  • Mr Roberto Barbuti, Chief Executive Officer, Corsan Water
  • Mr Gustavo Pimentel, Managing Director, Sitawi

Learn more about the projects

Belgrade Waste-to-Energy Project

Corsan Water Supply, Efficiency, and Resilience Project

Session 1: Attracting institutional investors and mobilising capital markets

8 September 2021

8:00AM EDT / 2:00PM CEST / 10:00PM AEST

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In this panel discussion, participants were introduced to approaches to attracting institutional investors and mobilising capital markets, hearing solutions and lessons learnt from two recent projects: Continuum Green Energy's recent green bond issuance worth USD561 million to provide renewable power in India, including supporting the country's post-pandemic recovery, and Liquid Intelligent Technologies' USD620 million bond issuance to support wider broadband connectivity in Africa. 

Learn more about the projects

  • Case study of Liquid Intelligent Technologies bond issuance
  • Case study of Continuum Green Energy bond issuance

Session topics

The moderated panel discussion featured speakers from Continuum Green Energy in India and Deutsche Bank, and Liquid Intelligent Technologies in South Africa and JP Morgan, sharing insights and solutions on:

  • Broad project objectives, including community benefits and sustainability objectives of the projects
  • Policy and regulatory environment factors that impacted the deals
  • How the projects were structured
  • Strategies and approaches used to attract private capital
  • Ways in which involvement of the private sector helped achieve public sector objectives.

Moderators and panellists

The session was co-moderated by Ms Marie Lam-Frendo, Chief Executive Officer, GI Hub and Mr Morgan Landy, Senior Director, Global Infrastructure and Natural Resources, International Finance Corporation.

Panellists for the session were:

  • Mr Arvind Bansal, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Continuum Green Energy
  • Ms Kate Hennessy, Chief Financial Officer, Liquid Intelligent Technologies
  • Mr Sameer Gupta, Managing Director - Head, India Debt Capital Markets, Deutsche Bank
  • Mr Jitendra Mistry, Executive Director, Sub-Saharan Africa Debt Capital Markets, JP Morgan

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About the International Finance Corporation

This series was created by the GI Hub in collaboration with the IFC.

IFC—a member of the World Bank Group—is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets. We work in more than 100 countries, using our capital, expertise, and influence to create markets and opportunities in developing countries. In fiscal year 2021, IFC committed a record $31.5 billion to private companies and financial institutions in developing countries, leveraging the power of the private sector to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity as economies grapple with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. For more information, visit www.ifc.org.

 

About the International Finance Corporation

This series was created by the GI Hub in collaboration with the IFC.

IFC—a member of the World Bank Group—is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets. We work in more than 100 countries, using our capital, expertise, and influence to create markets and opportunities in developing countries. In fiscal year 2021, IFC committed a record $31.5 billion to private companies and financial institutions in developing countries, leveraging the power of the private sector to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity as economies grapple with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. For more information, visit www.ifc.org.

 

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