Natixis and Global Infrastructure Basel launch SuRe® the first standard for sustainable and resilient infrastructure.

With their unique expertise in infrastructure and environmental and social impact assessments, Natixis and GIB have joined forces to create this standard with the view of facilitating the financing of infrastructure that supports the transition to a more sustainable economy, notably in developing and emerging countries.

Certification under the standard will be awarded to infrastructure projects that meet specific environmental, social and governance evaluation as well as resilience criteria and will highlight the positive sustainable development impacts of the infrastructure projects that earn it.

The standard is intended to serve as a common assessment tool to be used by public entities, project sponsors and institutional investors alike. The standard will allow public entities and industrial sponsors to adapt the design (and/or the upgrade) of infrastructure projects and use the certification to attract financing from relevant sources. Institutional investors will have a means of identifying projects eligible for inclusion in SRI funds.

This standard is being developed as part of a multi-stakeholder process coordinated by Natixis and GIB, who together constitute the SuRe Secretariat. The standard is governed by a Standard Committee, a body involving 14 experts in the infrastructure industry and in sustainability and resilience issues which decides on the standard approach, content and standard-setting procedures; and the Stakeholder Council, a forum of 25 stakeholders tasked to provide feedback on the standard and ensure its relevance across groups of stakeholders and regions of the world. Stakeholders include public entities, infrastructure developers and contractors, public and private financial institutions, certification and consulting, civil society, academia from around the world.