As adaptation and resilience become essential, the challenge is to prove how they drive financial performance - and how failing to integrate them will increasingly be penalised. In this context, how can standards help align the infrastructure community? Through three panels, we will hear perspectives from investors, project developers, and insurers.

• 12:00 - Reception and networking
• 12:30 - Welcome and keynote
• 12:45 - Panel 1: Perspectives from the investors
• 13:15 - Panel 2: Perspectives from the insurers
• 13:45 - Panel 3: Perspectives from the asset level
• 14:10 - Closing remarks and networking session
• 15:00 - End of the event

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In an increasingly volatile global context marked by geopolitical tensions, accelerating climate impacts, and persistent social and economic inequalities, infrastructure has become central to achieving long-term development and economic stability goals.

The scale of the challenge is significant: global infrastructure needs are estimated at approximately USD 106 trillion by 2040, while many emerging and developed economies continue to face growing pressure to modernise energy, transport, water, and social infrastructure systems.

Yet the challenge is no longer only about delivering infrastructure at scale and speed. Increasingly, investors, governments, insurers, and developers are confronting a more fundamental question: how to ensure that infrastructure assets are designed and operated to remain resilient, insurable, financially viable, and capable of delivering long-term value under increasingly uncertain environmental, economic, and geopolitical conditions.

While institutional capital is available, finance flows are constrained by real and perceived risks, insufficiently standardised definitions of sustainability and resilience, fragmented data, and misalignment between sustainability, resilience, and financial risk frameworks.

Recent analysis from Global Infrastructure Basel Foundation and the FIA Foundation highlights how sustainability and resilience can move from principles to performance drivers in infrastructure investment. Quantitative modelling shows that asset resilience and standardisation can improve risk‑adjusted returns, while applied work on safe and sustainable mobility demonstrates how insurability and risk management become bankable when translated into measurable KPIs, monitoring frameworks, and contractual incentives. The FAST‑Infra Label brings these insights together by providing a clear, credible and comparable framework that integrates sustainability, resilience and governance into a common language for investors, insurers and developers, raising the central question this event will explore: can sustainability and resilience drive financial performance in infrastructure?

Objectives

• Showcase how sustainability and resilience translate into financial performance in infrastructure, using real cases from different perspectives: financiers, insurers and infrastructure developers/operators.
• Identify concrete pathways for expanding collaboration among investors, insurers, policymakers, and standard-setting initiatives.

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Target Audience

Senior professionals from:

• GPs, LPs, banks and MDBs/DFIs
• Insurance and reinsurance
• Policymakers and public procurement
• Sustainability, risk and resilience experts
• Infrastructure developers and operators