Welcome to
SustainABLE

Infrastructure touches every aspect of human life. From the roads we drive on and the mobile networks that connect us, to the delivery of the water we drink and the electricity that lights up our homes. It connects people with services, provides opportunities, and protects lives and livelihoods.

UNOPS research, conducted with the University of Oxford, demonstrates that infrastructure influences 92 per cent of all targets across the Sustainable Development Goals. Additionally, it is responsible for 79 per cent of all greenhouse gas emissions and will account for 88 per cent of all adaptation costs.

Improving infrastructure's impact

To ensure the achievement of these global agendas, infrastructure needs to be sustainable, resilient and inclusive. Thus, to support our partners to have the ability to use infrastructure development as a catalyst to achieve sustainable development, UNOPS, in collaboration with partners, is developing a new suite of tools (SustainABLE) to support the achievement of sustainable outcomes.

SustainABLE aims to:

• Support an evidence-driven approach to infrastructure decision-making
• Identify clear actions to be implemented across the infrastructure lifecycle to enable the delivery of infrastructure projects that maximize the impact of investment on the Sustainable Development Goals, Paris Agreement and Leave No One Behind Pledge
• Catalyze systemic change by identifying targeted improvements to the infrastructure enabling environment to ensure all physical infrastructure is sustainable, resilient and inclusive
• Identify public and private financing opportunities for infrastructure projects

Explore our tools

Explore each of the tools below and help create a more sustainable future.