Sustainable Infrastructure Research Intern

Ambitious infrastructure plans to connect countries and markets pose enormous threats to the world’s vulnerable communities and biodiversity and are on track to increase greenhouse gas emissions, contributing to climate change. WWF is developing a new workplan to guide its future efforts in helping transform global infrastructure development onto a more sustainable path. The internship will support the process of developing this plan and a subsequent action program by carrying out research, developing databases, and preparing reference guides for WWF offices around the world working on advocacy, policy, community engagement, technical design, spatial and economic planning, monitoring, etc. in relation to driving standards, practices, and norms toward sustainability in infrastructure development. The intern will contribute to a review of staff capacity, conduct virtual interviews, create surveys, tabulate and analyze data. They will also carry out desktop research and write briefing papers on a range of related topics. The intern will conduct a comparative analysis on a set of projects supporting sustainable infrastructure, focusing on identifying key commonalities and distinctions. The intern will review a range of knowledge sharing platforms, resources, and tools related to sustainable infrastructure and provide recommendations on their utility for WWF staff and partner organizations.