Social execution risks: a new frontier for infrastructure finance

Trillions of dollars are being invested in the infrastructure needed for the green and digital transitions. Yet projects – from wind and solar farms to, especially, data centres – are increasingly running into opposition from the communities they affect. In this commentary from the Just Transition Finance Lab, Georgette Baliga and Arka Chanda argue that this emerging ‘social execution risk’ is becoming a material consideration for infrastructure finance.

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