There is a generational opportunity emerging for the infrastructure asset class to facilitate the energy transition and improve the resiliency of essential assets, says QIC’s head of global infrastructure Ross Israel.
Physical risk to infrastructure assets can result in major losses, and sooner than many expect. The EDHEC Infrastructure & Private Assets Research Institute quantifies those losses in different climate scenarios.
Australia’s competition watchdog said Brookfield’s Global Transition Fund would have a ‘strong imperative and commercial incentive to lower emissions quickly’, outweighing vertical integration concerns.