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This report reviews promising practices in Africa, Latin America, Asia, Europe and the United States in which developments at a significant scale have attempted to integrate ecosystem services and climate change implications. There is growing evidence that some countries, financial institutions and designers around the world are developing more holistic approaches to infrastructure development.

This report has reviewed promising practices in Africa, Latin America, Asia, Europe and the United States in which developments at a significant scale have attempted to integrate ecosystem services and climate change implications. There is growing evidence that some countries, financial institutions and designers around the world are developing more holistic approaches to infrastructure development.

It also reviews existing frameworks from international financial institutions and development partners, which are involved in financing sustainable infrastructure, to assess the level of awareness and interest that exist in the industry landscape. The purpose of this work is to establish initial evidence that these approaches are being adopted successfully in different regions in the world, and that they could be replicated to ensure infrastructure development in the next decade yields the expected benefits, without trading off sustainability and climate resilience.

The case study examples capture a wide range of scales, from very large regional development plans, to spatial plans and masterplans and, at the smallest scale, individual or local infrastructure projects. This is to ensure that the different processes, stakeholder types and regulatory or legal frameworks that may be engaged across the different scales are fully captured and appreciated, making the learning outcomes more widely applicable.