A vision for the future

In the streets, at the ballot boxes and on social media, people are making their opinions heard. And that is driving significant risk and massive opportunity for governments, businesses and infrastructure players. Governments, investors, developers and operators will need to move quickly to respond and reform. New listening skills will be critical and new ideas will be required.

Are you ready to navigate the trends of 2020? In this year’s edition of Emerging Trends in Infrastructure, KPMG’s global network of infrastructure professionals pinpoint the big issues that will influence infrastructure in the year ahead. And they share their predictions on how infrastructure players and markets will respond.

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Trend 1: Society finds its voice

From coordinated climate actions to protest marches, the world is reverberating with demand for change.
 
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Trend 2: Putting infrastructure resilience and safety first

In a rapidly-evolving risk environment, the public’s awareness and interest have never been so high.
 
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Trend 4: Winds of globalization blow from the East

As markets in the West continue to turn inwards, Asia’s markets are turning outward and they are talking about building bridges instead of walls.
 
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Trend 5: The corporate world (finally) embraces sustainability

Corporations are starting to embrace the sustainability agenda and more specifically, the concept of decarbonization.
 
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Trend 6: Planners and consumers align

Expect to see greater focus on aligning the 'micro' consumer decisions with 'macro' infrastructure planning.
 
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Trend 10: The light bulb comes on

After years of disjointed data and analytics approaches, this is the year of change.
 
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Richard Threlfall

Global Head of Infrastructure, Government and Healthcare (IGH)

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Board of Member, Co-Head of Government & Infrastructure Industry, Co-Head of Renewable Industry

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