Shaping a Sustainable Future for Infrastructure The world’s leading conservation organization, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) works in nearly 100 countries with the goal of building a world where people and nature thrive. Why WWF Cares About Infrastructure Improving global access to sustainable infrastructure and its benefits is essential to ensure a safe, healthy, and thriving society. If poorly planned, however, infrastructure can impede wildlife movement, fragment natural habitats, cause widespread land-use conversion, and prevent people from accessing natural resources they depend on for their livelihoods. WWF works to advance sustainability across the infrastructure life cycle— from early-stage planning to decommissioning—to ensure a future where natural infrastructure is conserved and human-engineered infrastructure is planned, sited, and operated to meet societal needs while minimizing emissions, building resilience, and maintaining thriving ecosystem services and biodiversity. We collaborate with governments, the private and financial sectors, academia, Indigenous peoples and local communities, civil society organizations, and more to shift infrastructure development so that it incorporates sciencebased and inclusive planning, siting, and design. Bringing Engineering and Conservation Together As the designers and creators of infrastructure, engineers will play a critical role in how this sector evolves. They can shape projects to meet naturepositive and net-zero objectives, challenge old norms, innovate, and visualize the future. This extraordinary capacity to drive real change is why WWF and the International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC) entered a multiyear partnership in 2021. Together, we aim to combine the strengths of the conservation and engineering communities to generate sustainable infrastructure innovations and solutions. We Need Your Input Responding to demand from the engineering community, the partnership will produce a practical playbook to identify best practices and approaches for designing and delivering low-carbon, nature-positive, sustainable infrastructure. The playbook will illustrate how the conservation and engineering sectors can address the increasing need to deliver vital infrastructure services while meeting global Sustainable Development Goals. Please contact us at infrastructure@wwfus.org to learn more and join this influential project.
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WWF and FIDIC aim to combine the strengths of the conservation and engineering communities to create a sustainable infrastructure playbook.