CPCS joins Blue Dot Network to advance sustainable infrastructure development

CPCS

April 24, 2025

CPCS, a strategic advisor to infrastructure leaders, has joined the Executive Consultation Group of Blue Dot Network (BDN), an independent entity overseeing the first international certification framework for quality infrastructure. The BDN certification signals to investors and stakeholders the robustness, resilience, and positive impact of infrastructure projects.

Current BDN members — Governing and Network — include Australia, Canada, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States, among others.

Summary

CPCS was invited to join Blue Dot Network’s Executive Consultation Group, a community of over 200 business, civil society, trade union and academic leaders that are contributing to the ongoing development of the Blue Dot certification.
Blue Dot Network’s certification is the first global certification to operationalize the G20 Principles for Quality Infrastructure Investment.
The certification consists of 10 high-level objectives and several criteria.

CPCS enables sustainable infrastructure development

Members of Blue Dot Network’s Executive Consultation Group span the full infrastructure ecosystem, and include institutional investors, asset managers, commercial banks, multilateral development banks, project developers, operators, contractors, engineering firms, technology companies, and professional service firms. As a member of this group, CPCS will leverage its experience with project identification, evaluation and structuring to advance infrastructure development.

Jean-Francois Arsenault, co-CEO of CPCS: “Sustainable infrastructure development requires a global effort, and through Blue Dot Network, we’re part of a community that’s advancing quality projects that not only meet immediate needs but will also be developed to last for generations.”

About Blue Dot Network

Blue Dot Network provides an internationally recognized certification for quality infrastructure projects that are environmentally and socially sustainable, resilient, open and transparent, and economically efficient.

Quality infrastructure investment is vital for sustainable economic development, combatting climate change and improving human well-being worldwide. A trusted certification will help increase the confidence of investors and other stakeholders in the robustness, resilience, and sustainability of infrastructure projects.

Blue Dot Network is supported by a global multi-stakeholder community committed to quality infrastructure that brings together all the relevant stakeholders including governments, investors, business, civil society and trade unions.

As the illustration below shows, to achieve certification, projects must fulfill a core set of essential requirements spanning all 10 elements, ensuring consistency and excellence in infrastructure development.

The 10 elements are high-level objectives:

Promote sustainable and inclusive economic growth and development.
Promote market-driven and private sector-led investment, supported by judicious use of public funds.
Support sound public financial management, debt transparency, and project-level and country-level debt sustainability.
Build projects that are resilient to climate change, disasters, and other risks, and aligned with the pathways towards 2050 net-zero emissions needed to keep global temperature change of 1.5 degrees Celsius within reach.
Ensure value-for-money over an asset’s full life-cycle cost.
Build local capacity, with a focus on local skills transfer and local capital markets.
Promote protections against corruption, while encouraging transparent procurement and consultation processes.
Uphold international best practices of environmental and social safeguards, including respect for labour and human rights.
Promote the non-discriminatory use of infrastructure services.
Advance inclusion for women, people with disabilities, and underrepresented and marginalised groups.

Learn more: https://www.bluedot-network.org/

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