system change requires eco-efficient infrastructure design & approaches infrastructure provides...

Changing the visible structure of the economy

• System change requires eco-efficient infrastructure design & approaches

• Infrastructure provides the foundation for our socio-economic systems

Eco Efficiency

Urban design and planning

Buildings

Transport

Water

Energy

Waste

Energy consumption and greenhouse gas emission

Infrastructure is one of the main determinants of resource efficiency and carbon intensity of economic growth patterns

BROWN GREEN

Green Buildings

Renewable Energy

Technologies

Public Transport

Railways

Rainwater harvesting

Decentralized wastewater treatment

Quality of growth and livability

• AP countries stand to be hardest hit by oil price increases and volatility

• Severe traffic congestion that can amount to 10% of annual GDP!

Infrastructure should be designedthinking 30-50 years ahead

• Long lifespan • Urbanization• In 2030, 2.6 billion will live in cities or towns• Adding 3.5 million people / month in next 20 years

Investments in the next five to ten years are critical

• Investments in infrastructure: US$ 8 trillion to US$ 10 trillion in the region

• Will lock the Asia and Pacific economies into patterns of energy use and greenhouse gas emissions for decades to come

Failure to integrate eco-efficientinfrastructure development

Failure to integrate eco-efficiency

Growing externalities

Growing number of poor peopleRapid urbanization

Cities become centers for poverty and environmental

problems

Promoting eco-efficient infrastructureincludes retrofitting the old

Good for the environment & Good for the economy