This is the second in a two-part series on sustainability metrics for the infrastructure asset class. The first was published in the October 2019 i3 on the metrics available for infrastructure investors and their potential to improve sustainability reporting and outcomes for infrastructure projects. Guggenheim Investments, in collaboration with the World Wildlife Fund, commissioned researchers from Stanford University’s Global Projects Center for the report used in this series, State of the Practice: Sustainability Standards for Infrastructure Investors. The complete 96-page report is available at www.guggenheiminvestments.com/Standards

Today’s infrastructure investors have a menu of screening tools and accounting metrics at their disposal to measure and report on the sustainability of their portfolios. In the previous article, we argued sustainability m