Sustainable Asset Valuation Tool: Energy infrastructure
Technical background document for the Sustainable Asset Valuation Tool of IISD (SAVi) for energy infrastructure.
“The benefits are very high compared to the costs,” said Hank Venema, planning director at the Winnipeg-based Prairie Climate Centre. “But it’s different than the way that governments have traditionally viewed these kinds of expenditures: they’ve looked upon it as just capital expense and not risk reduction and rural economic development and habitat benefit.”