Until very recently, one might have been forgiven for thinking that the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) credentials of an infrastructure investment were an optional extra; an afterthought to the all-important revenues and returns of a fund or individual asset. However, the importance of investing in sustainable assets is now central to the financial decision-making process of the majority of institutional investors.

It feels like only yesterday we were in Boston for our 2016 Institutional Investing in Infrastructure (i3) editorial advisory board meeting. Now we are a few weeks away from the 2017 i3 editorial meeting in Toronto. For those who are new to i3, you might be wondering what the board meeting even is; it is an invitation-only event with managers, consultants and institutional investors engaging in roundtable discussions.