Climate Resilient Infrastructure
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Infrastructure For A Climate Resilient Future
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Author : OECD
language : en
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Release Date : 2024-04-09
Infrastructure For A Climate Resilient Future written by OECD and has been published by OECD Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-09 with categories.
This report discusses ways of enhancing government capacities to prevent, react and rebuild, thereby minimising the impact of natural disasters on infrastructure assets and operations. It identifies data, collaboration and technologies as drivers of resilience, and highlights financial resources, technical skills and regulatory frameworks as key enablers. The report presents seven actionable principles to ensure infrastructure resilience, drawing from global good practices and in-depth analyses of infrastructure projects in Colombia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mozambique and the United States.
Climate Resilient Infrastructure
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Author : Committee on Adaptation to a Changing Climate
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Climate Resilient Infrastructure written by Committee on Adaptation to a Changing Climate and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Building, Stormproof categories.
Abstract: Prepared by the Committee on Adaptation to a Changing Climate of ASCE Civil infrastructure systems traditionally have been designed for appropriate functionality, durability, and safety for climate and weather extremes during their full-service lives; however, climate scientists inform us that the extremes of climate and weather have altered from historical values in ways difficult to predict or project. Climate-Resilient Infrastructure: Adaptive Design and Risk Management, MOP 140, provides guidance for and contributes to the developing or enhancing of methods for infrastructure analysis and design in a world in which risk profiles are changing and can be projected with varying degrees of uncertainty requiring a new design philosophy to meet this challenge. The underlying approaches in this manual of practice (MOP) are based on probabilistic methods for quantitative risk analysis, and the design framework provided focuses on identifying and analyzing low-regret, adaptive strategies to make a project more resilient. Beginning with an overview of the driving forces and hazards associated with a changing climate, subsequent chapters in MOP 140 provide observational methods, illustrative examples, and case studies; estimation of extreme events particularly related to precipitation with guidance on monitoring and measuring methods; flood design criteria and the development of project design flood elevations; computational methods of determining flood loads; adaptive design and adaptive risk management in the context of life-cycle engineering and economics; and climate resilience technologies. MOP 140 will be of interest to engineers, researchers, planners, and other stakeholders charged with adaptive design decisions to achieve infrastructure resilience targets while minimizing life-cycle costs in a changing climate
Climate Resilient Infrastructure
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Author : American Society of Civil Engineers. Committee on Adaptation to a Changing Climate
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-10-04
Climate Resilient Infrastructure written by American Society of Civil Engineers. Committee on Adaptation to a Changing Climate and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-04 with Building, Stormproof categories.
MOP 140 provides guidance for developing or enhancing of methods for infrastructure analysis and design to achieve infrastructure resilience targets while minimizing life-cycle costs in a changing climate.
Enhancing Resilience To Climate Change In The Maldives
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Author : Mr. Giovanni Melina
language : en
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Release Date : 2021-04-23
Enhancing Resilience To Climate Change In The Maldives written by Mr. Giovanni Melina and has been published by International Monetary Fund this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-23 with Business & Economics categories.
The increased likelihood of adverse climate-change-related shocks calls for building resilient infrastructure in the Maldives. Fulfilling these infrastructure needs requires a comprehensive analysis of investment plans, including with respect to their degree of climate resilience, their impact on future economic prospects, and their funding costs and sources. This paper analyzes these challenges, through calibrating a general equilibrium model. The main finding is that there is a significant dividend associated with building resilient infrastructure. Under worsened climate conditions, the cumulative output gain from investing in more resilient technologies increases up to a factor of two. However, given the Maldives’ limited fiscal space, particularly after COVID-19, the international community should also step up cooperation efforts. We also show that it is financially convenient for donors to help build resilience prior to the occurrence of a natural disasters rather than helping finance the reconstruction ex-post.
Financing Climate Resilient Infrastructure A Political Economy Framework
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Author : Peter B. Meyer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Financing Climate Resilient Infrastructure A Political Economy Framework written by Peter B. Meyer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.
Abstract: Urban infrastructure investment is needed for both, mitigation of climate risks and improved urban resiliency. Financing them requires the translation of those benefits into measurable returns on investment in the context of emerging risks that capital markets can understand and appreciate. This paper develops a generic framework to identify what are the necessary and sufficient factors to economically favor climate-change resilient infrastructure in private investment decisions. We specifically demonstrate that carbon pricing alone will not generate the needed will, because market prices at present systematically fail to account for climate change risks such as the costs of stranded assets and the national and local co-benefits of investments in climate resiliency. Carbon pricing is necessary, but not sufficient for an enhanced private financing of climate-resilient infrastructure. The Paris Agreement and other supra-local policies and actors including city networks can concretely
Enhancing The Climate Resilience Of Africa S Infrastructure
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Author : Raffaello Cervigni
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 2015-09-01
Enhancing The Climate Resilience Of Africa S Infrastructure written by Raffaello Cervigni and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-01 with Business & Economics categories.
To sustain Africa’s growth, and accelerate the eradication of extreme poverty, investment in infrastructure is fundamental. In 2010, the Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic found that to enable Africa to fill its infrastructure gap, some US$ 93 billion per year for the next decade will need to be invested. The Program for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA), endorsed in 2012 by the continent’s Heads of State and Government, lays out an ambitious long-term plan for closing Africa’s infrastructure including trough step increases in hydroelectric power generation and water storage capacity. Much of this investment will support the construction of long-lived infrastructure (e.g. dams, power stations, irrigation canals), which may be vulnerable to changes in climatic patterns, the direction and magnitude of which remain significantly uncertain. Enhancing the Climate Resilience of Africa 's Infrastructure evaluates -using for the first time a single consistent methodology and the state-of-the-arte climate scenarios-, the impacts of climate change on hydro-power and irrigation expansion plans in Africa’s main rivers basins (Niger, Senegal, Volta, Congo, Nile, Zambezi, Orange); and outlines an approach to reduce climate risks through suitable adjustments to the planning and design process. The book finds that failure to integrate climate change in the planning and design of power and water infrastructure could entail, in scenarios of drying climate conditions, losses of hydropower revenues between 5% and 60% (depending on the basin); and increases in consumer expenditure for energy up to 3 times the corresponding baseline values. In in wet climate scenarios, business-as-usual infrastructure development could lead to foregone revenues in the range of 15% to 130% of the baseline, to the extent that the larger volume of precipitation is not used to expand the production of hydropower. Despite the large uncertainty on whether drier or wetter conditions will prevail in the future in Africa, the book finds that by modifying existing investment plans to explicitly handle the risk of large climate swings, can cut in half or more the cost that would accrue by building infrastructure on the basis of the climate of the past.
Climate Resilient Infrastructure
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Author : Great Britain: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
language : en
Publisher: Stationery Office
Release Date : 2011-05-09
Climate Resilient Infrastructure written by Great Britain: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and has been published by Stationery Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-09 with Architecture categories.
This document is designed to promote action to adapt infrastructure in the energy, ICT, transport and water sectors. It makes the case for action, identifies who needs to acts, the challenges and the opportunities available. The aim is to create an infrastructure network that is resilient to today's natural hazards and prepared for the future changing climate. Infrastructure is largely private sector funded so this paper sets out how Government can assist others. The document contains nine sections: (1) 1 highlights how the UK's climate might change and the risks this presents; (2) sets out the infrastructure sectors examined by the study; (3) focuses on the need to adapt infrastructure to climate change impacts within the context of wider Government activity on infrastructure; (4) identifies the potential opportunities through taking early action and developing expertise in adapting infrastructure; (5) sets out the Government's vision; (6) highlights how successful adaptation can improve the long-term resilience of infrastructure; (7) presents the main challenges and barriers preventing action; (8) covers the increasing risk from climate change to infrastructure interdependencies; (9) describes the headline challenges, the opportunities for others to act and how Government can assist.
Strengthening Infrastructure Governance For Climate Responsive Public Investment
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Author : International Monetary
language : en
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Release Date : 2021-12-22
Strengthening Infrastructure Governance For Climate Responsive Public Investment written by International Monetary and has been published by International Monetary Fund this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-22 with Business & Economics categories.
Countries have committed, through the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to pursue climate targets and policies that would limit global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels. A shift toward green public investment will help to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In addition, substantial public investment will be necessary to build public infrastructure that makes economies more resilient to climate change and related natural disasters. Climate change mitigation and adaptation challenges thus compound preexisting needs for public investment to foster the economic recovery from the pandemic and to meet the SDGs in a broader range of areas, often in a context of limited fiscal space. Against this backdrop, a priority for all countries is to manage their public investment efficiently and effectively. To help countries improve the institutions and processes for infrastructure governance (the planning, allocation, and implementation of public investment), the IMF developed in 2015 the Public Investment Management Assessment (PIMA), which has already been applied in over 70 countries. However, the current PIMA does not provide a sufficiently tailored assessment of how public investment management can support climate change mitigation and adaptation. To fill this gap, this paper introduces a new module to the to the current Public Investment Management Assessment (PIMA) framework, the “Climate-PIMA” (C-PIMA), whose goal is to help governments identify potential improvements in public investment institutions and processes to build low-carbon and climate-resilient infrastructure.
Building Climate Resilience Through Virtual Water And Nexus Thinking In The Southern African Development Community
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Author : Anna Entholzner
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-05-23
Building Climate Resilience Through Virtual Water And Nexus Thinking In The Southern African Development Community written by Anna Entholzner and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-23 with Science categories.
This book puts the spotlight on Southern Africa, presenting a cutting-edge concept never previously explored in the context of climate change and putting forward arguments for regional integration and cooperation. The Climate Resilient Infrastructure Development Facility (CRIDF) is the new water infrastructure program of the UK Department for International Development (DFID) for Southern Africa. The CRIDF promotes the establishment of small to medium-scale infrastructure across the Southern African Development Community (SADC) through technical assistance aimed at developing sustainable pro-poor projects, while also facilitating access to the financial resources needed to deliver said infrastructure. Further, it focuses on regional water resource management goals and basin plans, as well as on building climate resilience for the beneficiary communities. The Facility’s Virtual Water and Nexus Project works to improve regional peace dividends by translating the Nexus concept into national and regional policies; it ultimately promotes sovereign security through greater regional integration across the water, food and energy sectors, while taking into account potential benefits in connection with carbon sequestration and emission mitigation.
Green Infrastructure And Urban Climate Resilience
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Author : Keerththana Kumareswaran
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-09-30
Green Infrastructure And Urban Climate Resilience written by Keerththana Kumareswaran and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-30 with Science categories.
This book aims to cover most subject areas of green infrastructure such as components, multi-functionality, and integration to build environment, contribution to urban sustainability, sustainable and smart city development, urban climate change nexus, green buildings and rating systems, economic assessment, and quantification of green infrastructure. The impending climate crisis, as well as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, has highlighted the importance of green infrastructure in and around cities, prompting a call for more functional and sustainable urban planning and design. A number of recent studies have shown that green infrastructure provides a wide range of ecosystem functions and services critical to human well-being and urban sustainability, which is especially important during climatic and health crises. In this book, the authors emphasize the importance of existing green infrastructure in coping with climate change-induced stresses, such as increasing climate variability and extreme temperature and precipitation events, as well as contributing to urban dwellers' physical and mental health. Green infrastructure, in both cases, plays a significant role in providing urban areas with resilience capacity, which is critical to urban sustainability. The authors also emphasize the importance of expanding and improving green infrastructure, particularly in vulnerable areas, through integrative and participatory processes. Appropriate integration of green-gray infrastructure and development of climate resilient cities is the core theme of this publication. Further, it emphasizes sustainable development which has become an imperative requirement to the world to move fore and climate change-built environment nexus, the most critical global crisis. Though several books were published globally on the green infrastructure and urban resilience individually, books are rarely published combining both disciplines. This book identifies and addresses the gap through comprehensively discussing on both interlinked areas which is essential for the sustainable urban development. Further, it explores on urban climate resilience, urban sprawl, urbanization, resilience drivers, essentials of city resilience, policy implications, challenges, and future perspectives. This book is a useful fundamental guide in practical applications of green infrastructure in built environment in sustainability context. Further, it enlightens on the significance of transforming the conventional building construction trend to sustainable urban planning designs and building development, exploring on the strategic pathway on building urban climate resilience while signifying the importance of healthy built environment through discussing on the nexus between climate change and built environment.