Episode 2: Global Infrastructure Initiative Series

Episode notes

Infrastructure leaders Adrian Dwyer from Infrastructure Partnerships Australia and James Heath from the UK’s National Infrastructure Commission talk with Ashurst's Harvey Weaver about how their sector can help address some pressing global challenges. Climate change. Supply chain shortages. Cost of living pressures. The list goes on. There’s a dizzying array of challenges facing today’s business and government leaders. Given the right funding, strategy, and creativity, the infrastructure sector could play its part in addressing these challenges, including helping nations like the UK and Australia hit ambitious net zero targets. That’s the message from infrastructure leaders in this episode of Ashurst Business Agenda, who call for greater collaboration and long-term policy settings from governments. “What we’d like to see is governments focus [on intervention] where there is genuine market failure,” says Adrian Dwyer from Infrastructure Partnerships Australia. “But those interventions should be first and foremost by setting the rules of the game not playing the game...

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