Title: A centre of excellence for infrastructure project preparation and PPP to fight climate change

Authors: Gilbert Ahamer

Addresses: Institute for Geographic Information Systems, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Schillerstrasse 30, Salzburg, Austria

Abstract: This article describes the concept for a regional centre of excellence and advisory facility for project design, financing and public-private partnership (PPP), using Central Asia (CA) as an example. The key task is to support partner countries in developing their bankable climate-related and environmental infrastructure projects for funding through international financial institutions (IFIs) while complying with their social and environmental project quality criteria. For the success of a Virtual Knowledge Centre (VKC), the communication options are essential. Its main task is to create a social community.

Keywords: centre of excellence; CoE; advisory facility; municipalities; cities; sustainability; green technology; climate change measures; clean technologies; Central Asia; public-private partnership; PPP; virtual knowledge centre; VKC; Paris Climate Conference.

DOI: 10.1504/IJFIP.2019.098373

International Journal of Foresight and Innovation Policy, 2019 Vol.14 No.1, pp.37 - 49

Received: 10 Mar 2018
Accepted: 23 Jun 2018
Published online: 18 Mar 2019 *

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