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Workshop 3: Climate-Smart Roads and Railways

The Egyptian Ministry of Finance, the Multilateral Cooperation Center for Development Finance (MCDF), the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), the World Bank, the Vulnerable Twenty (V20) Group, and the World Resources Institute are cohosting a Workshop Series on Climate Smart Connectivity Infrastructure – the Road to Sharm El-Sheikh to share practical lessons of global experience and policy options for climate-smart connectivity infrastructure projects. The workshop series is also designed to provide capacity building and support the development of a pipeline of climate-smart connectivity infrastructure projects.

The workshop series will conclude with an official event during the Finance Day of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) where a group of climate-smart connectivity infrastructure investment projects from developing countries will be showcased. In this event, key lessons learned, practical experiences and effective policies for the mobilization of finance to implement climate-smart connectivity infrastructure projects will also be presented.

The third workshop of the series will be on climate-smart roads and railways. This workshop is organized in two parts. The first part is scheduled on 19–20 September 2022, 18:00–20:30 pm Beijing time, which will focus on the best global experience, innovations, and standards on climate-smart road and railway infrastructure. The second part will be a closed session with a small group of project developers and possible financiers designed as an exchange platform with a panel of experts to serve as a deep-dive review of a selected set of projects.