This will be a year of setbacks and recoveries — and recoveries and setbacks. We see 2022 as a year of opportunity as the world learns from the past and works to rebuild with more resilience, sustainability and equity. Yet it will also be a year of uncertainty as new challenges emerge and social expectations continue to shift as we learn to live in a world with (not after) COVID. And infrastructure leaders have an opportunity to fundamentally change our collective path on the climate, social, and governance agenda. 

Like it or not, the infrastructure decisions we make this year will set the stage for how the world will evolve over the next century. If we get it right, we have an unprecedented opportunity to catapult humanity forward into a cleaner, more productive and more equitable future. But if we get it wrong — if we allow our differences to supersede our collective interest — we will bequeath our children a very bleak future indeed. 

Making the right decisions on infrastructure will require four things — insight, agility, collaboration and bravery. The insight tells us what we should expect in the future. The agility is there when our insight is wrong. Collaboration allows us to change things at speed. Bravery is the spark that lets leaders act.