SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE

In accordance with its Sustainable Banking Strategy and through the Mexico Projects Hub, Banobras has developed and applied project analysis methodologies and tools to provide investors, developers, and interested parties with information on sustainable infrastructure, a topic of ever-increasing relevance for ecosystem participants. These efforts are part of the strategic axis of fostering national and international alliances to include environmental, social, gender, and governance principles in the planning and operation of the Bank’s actions.

Alignment of projects with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Banobras makes a digital tool available to investors and interested parties that presents the potential alignment of infrastructure projects with the 17 SDGs and their targets, contributing to the actions of the Government of Mexico to achieve the roadmap of the 2030 Agenda.

It is a comparative exercise that allows for the exploitation of data using different criteria, such as the potential impact of projects and sectors against national and global development targets, proposing a common basis and language for the analysis of infrastructure projects, with a view toward their financing and development. To access the application, review the projects, their potential alignment with the SDGs, and their targets.

Digital tool
Methodological Report

Sustainability Datasheet for Investment Projects

Starting in 2019, with the collaboration of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Banobras began the systematization of a methodology comprising more than 30 sustainable infrastructure criteria, which has been applied to more than 200 projects in its portfolio of investment opportunities open to private sector participation.

For the dissemination of this work, the Mexico Projects Hub includes a section called “Sustainability Information” in the project descriptions, which identifies the sustainability practices of the projects according to the methodological framework defined by the IDB, “Attributes and framework for sustainable infrastructure,” which can be consulted here.

This work is reflected in profiles/sheets that allow the sustainability practices to be shown across four dimensions:

  • Economic and Financial
  • Environmental and Climate Change
  • Social
  • Institutional

For greater understanding, you can consult a brief explanation of the methodology and a summary of the questions applied.

Findings and Recommendations: A document that presents certain guidelines, resulting from the findings gathered after the analysis of 140 infrastructure projects, in order to share sustainability practices with interested parties for implementing and scaling sustainable infrastructure solutions.

Explanation
Document (spanish)

To review the projects that already have a sustainability datasheet, select the option “SEARCH CRITERIA” in the Projects section, and there, at the end of the criteria, select “With sustainability analysis”; the projects that have a profile will be shown below.

Project Comparative

Interactive Project Comparison: Compares the results of the sustainable infrastructure analysis between projects published on the PMexico Projects Hub that have a sustainability datasheet.

The comparison is only performed between projects within the same subsector. Consult the interactive comparison here.

Banco Nacional de Obras y Servicios Públicos, S.N.C. | Sustainability Strategy

With the purpose of strengthening and providing greater clarity to the objectives, principles, and lines of action of the Banobras Sustainability Strategy and Gender Strategy, the Strategic Sustainability Framework was developed. This integrated document is conceived as a guiding framework that directs the planning, implementation, and monitoring of the Environmental and Social Policy and the Gender Policy, by establishing a common framework that articulates Banobras’ actions in environmental, climate, social, and gender matters, with a governance focus.

Sustainability Strategy

Sustainable Bonds Framework with a Gender Perspective 2025

Banobras is a leader not only in financing but also in innovative resource mobilization mechanisms. The Institution was the first Development Bank in Latin America to issue sustainable bonds and the first to issue sustainable bonds with a gender perspective linked to infrastructure in the local market, recognizing that infrastructure is not gender-neutral and that its impacts differ between women and men.

The Banobras Sustainable Bonds Framework establishes the guidelines that Banobras will follow in the issuance of green, social, or sustainable bonds with a gender perspective. These guidelines align with the Green Bond Principles, the Social Bond Principles, and the Sustainable Bond Guidelines of the ICMA (International Capital Markets Association).

Framework
Sustainability bonds

Sustainable Finance of the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit

It refers to the mobilization and use of resources from national and international financing sources, both public and private sector, whose objective is to finance actions and projects that incorporate criteria in favor of the environment, society, and good governance practices, while promoting a transition towards low-carbon, climate-resilient, inclusive, and equitable economies.

Sustainability Information

International initiatives and practices regarding the inclusion of sustainability aspects.