Orientation of infrastructure investments on the goals of the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda in Central and Southeast Asia (SIPA)

Over 60 percent of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions derive from existing infrastructure systems. What is built in the next years will set GHG trajectories for decades. Against the background of the design of post-COVID recovery plans, there is a unique opportunity to help direct investments towards energy, transport and industry infrastructure projects that not only support economic growth in the short term, but are also consistent with long-term climate goals. To achieve this, the project supports partner countries to prioritise infrastructure projects compatible with long-term low-emission, resilient development pathways. It promotes enabling policy frameworks to scale up investments in low-emission infrastructure. It cooperates with private sector and financial stakeholders to promote Responsible Business Conducts and green, inclusive finance and investment principles and finally fosters capacities, knowledge creation, policy dialogue and peer learning.

Project data

Countries: China, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Philippines, Thailand, Uzbekistan
IKI funding: 19,677,943.00 €
Included preparation phase: 322,052.29 €
Duration: 10/2021 till 09/2025
Status: open
Implementing organisation: The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Political Partner: Ministry of Economic Development and Trade (MEDT) - Tajikistan

Ministry of Economy and Commerce of the Kyrgyz Republic

Ministry of Economy and Finance of the Republic of Uzbekistan

Ministry of Finance - Mongolia

Ministry of Finance and Economy of Turkmenistan

Ministry of Industry and Infrastructural Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Ministry of Investments and Foreign Trade of the Republic of Uzbekistan

Ministry of National Economy – Kazakhstan

National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) - Philippines

Office of the National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC) - Thailand

State Ministry of National Development Planning (BAPPENAS) - Indonesia
Implementing Partner: Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) - Frankreich

International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

International Transport Forum (ITF)

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

University of Central Asia - Kyrgyzstan

World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) International
Online: https://www.oecd.org/site/sipa/

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State of implementation/results

All project publications are available on the project website: www.oecd.org/…
Regional:
- The 2022 Summer School on Sustainable Infrastructure took place in Kyrgyzstan from 21-23 September 2022 and gathered a group of selected policy makers from national development and planning authorities and sectoral ministries and agencies from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan as well as international experts on sustainable infrastructure.
- The 7th meeting of the OECD Southeast Asia Policy Network on Sustainable Infrastructure was held virtually in October 2023. Participants from several countries in the region shared concrete experiences from OECD and Southeast Asian countries to show how infrastructure governance can be implemented in practice and discussed the OECD indicators for infrastructure governance to provide benchmarks for their own practices and institutional arrangements.
- In September 2024, the UCA organised the SIPA Summer School in Astana, which was attended by national development and planning authorities and sectoral ministries and agencies from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, as well as international experts on sustainable infrastructure. The event focussed on promoting green finance (especially green bonds) for the development of sustainable infrastructure, responsible business practices, the adaptation of low-carbon technologies in hard-to-degrade industries and the link between water and hydrogen.
- The OECD organised the OECD Infrastructure Forum on 11 and 12 October 2022 in Paris. Representatives from the Ministry of National Development Planning of the Republic of Indonesia (BAPPENAS) and the National Economic and Development Authority of the Philippines (NEDA) took part.
- At the end of 2024, the OECD published a series of policy papers on Responsible Business Conduct (RBC) tailored to Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand.
- The International Transport Forum's (ITF) regional study on decarbonisation and connectivity in freight transport in Central Asia was presented on 11 and 12 March 2025. The study for Southeast Asia is to be presented on 24 and 25 April 2025.
Indonesia:
- Project activities supported BAPPENAS in the preparation of the Medium Term National Development Plan (RPJMN) 2025-29 and the Long Term National Development Plan (RPJPN) 2025-45, with which the country aims to consolidate the transition to a greener economy.
- In addition, WWF is supporting the process to conduct a national ecosystem services analysis and sub-national mapping of key ecosystem services in the RIMBA corridor.
- The final Medium-Term National Development Plan (Rencana Pembangunan Jangka Menengah Nasional, RPJMN), which incorporates some of the project's recommendations, was approved by Presidential Decree No. 12 in February 2025.At the request of BAPPENAS, the project had prepared a policy brief with recommendations from the first two years of project implementation in Indonesia for inclusion in the RPJMN. An official handover of the SIPA recommendations to BAPPENAS took place on 17 September 2024 in Jakarta.
Philippines:
- The project supported the Philippine planning authority NEDA through strategic foreseight activities and targeted policy advice on mainstreaming resilience in infrastructure planning in the development of the country's 2023-28 development plan and regional development plans in line with the national vision AmBisyon Natin 2040.
- The Clean Energy Finance and Investment Roadmap of the Philippines was launched on 7 March 2024 with the participation of the National Economic and Development Authority and the German Embassy in the Philippines.
Thailand:
- In February 2024, the ‘Framework for Industry's Net-Zero’ for the petrochemical industry and the plastics value chain was officially presented with the participation of the Ministry of Industry and the German Ambassador to Thailand.
Kazakhstan:
- The project provided analytical inputs on the Just Transition and international standards in the context of the development of the national strategy to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, which was adopted by presidential decree in February 2023.
- In November 2024, the project supported the Ministry of National Economy in developing a roadmap to achieve Kazakhstan's carbon neutrality target by 2060 with tailored recommendations.
Mongolia:
- The project held a stakeholder meeting in October 2024 to support the development of a low-carbon hydrogen strategy in Mongolia. The resulting OECD report with recommendations for the Mongolian government was published in March 2025.
Uzbekistan:
- The project aims to support the development and implementation of a long-term emissions reduction strategy in the country. Sectoral activities in Uzbekistan are focussed on energy and transport. IISD is developing a pilot assessment of the environmental, social and economic sustainability of a high-impact infrastructure project.
- In July 2024, the report ‘Financing Uzbekistan's Green Transition’ was published, with recommendations to the Ministry of Economy and Finance and other key stakeholders for the further development of the capital market in Uzbekistan and opportunities for green bond issuance as part of the transition to sustainable infrastructure.