WSP applies technical and nationally-recognized frameworks to assess climate risks and resilience across various asset classes. We tailor the infrastructure
Analysis and insights for driving a rapid transition to net-zero while building resilience to physical climate impacts.
# Climate Resilient Infrastructure. Around the world, the impacts of climate change – rising temperatures, shifting patterns of rainfall, more frequent and intense extreme weather, and rising sea levels – will affect all types of infrastructure from energy and transport to water, waste, and telecommunications. Ensuring the climate change resilience of infrastructure will help to protect lives and livelihoods, reduce direct losses as a result of extreme weather events, and play a key role in meeting the mitigation targets of the Paris Agreement, as well as to meet national development aspirations. Working with a range of partners, and drawing on ecosystem-based adaptation approaches, UNDP is supporting countries to climate-proof rural and urban infrastructure and to advance resilient infrastructure planning. ### Building Resilience in Viqueque: Climate-Proofing Rural Infrastructure to Safeguard Communities. Facing droughts and floods, Timor-Leste is building climate-resilient rural roads, irrigation and water systems, transforming daily life. Farmers inspect healthy maize crops at Pikinini Jawanda Irrigation Scheme in Zimbabwe, a once-overgrown area now transformed through climate-resilient agriculture. ### Pikinini Jawanda irrigation scheme: From jungle to a model of climate-resilient agriculture.
Resilient infrastructure is about building systems that are robust, adaptable, and capable of long-term performance under changing climate conditions.
Models the capacity of policy responses to meet current infrastructure goals while ensuring resilient policy capacity to the range of potential
* Few cities include effective mitigation and adaptation strategies in their action plans, even though climate-related risks are predicted to impact billions living in cities. * Climate-resilient development can be operationalised more effectively with a social-ecological-technological systems (SETS) approach. With climate action at its core, and a focus on ensuring vulnerable populations are not left behind, climate-resilient development fitted with a social-ecological-technological systems (SETS) approach supports sustainable development in an integrated manner. This approach can help cities to implement local-level climate action within a broader sustainable development agenda. * An integrated social-ecological-technological systems (SETS) approach can serve as a guide for operationalising urban climate-resilient development, enhancing co-benefit and prioritising synergistic solutions that enable local adaptation to climate change impacts while contributing to global efforts to reduce GHG emissions. * Policy interventions must recognise and address socio-economic inequities and entrenched vulnerabilities because of past urban planning legacies, present informal settlements at high-risk areas, and new policies leading to green climate gentrification.
This chapter introduces adaptive design and risk management in the context of life-cycle engineering and economics.
Contract Management Phase 82 5.1 Implement resilience measures 83 5.2 Climate-resilient operations 85 5.3 Monitor and evaluate climate-resilient performance requirements 88 5.4 Deal with climate-related contractual changes 90 5.5 Integrating climate considerations in the transfer/handover process 91 Conclusion 96 Further Reading 97 vi | Climate Resilient Infrastructure Handbook Abbreviations ADB Asian Development Bank AR6 Sixth Assessment Report (IPCC) CC Climate Change CRA Climate Risk Assessment EPC Engineering, Procurement, and Construction GIS Geographic Information Systems GCA Global Center on Adaptation GFDRR Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery ICT Information and Communication Technology IDB Inter-American Development Bank IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ISO International Organization for Standardization LGBT+ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and others NBS Nature-based Solutions NGO Non-Governmental Organization OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OpEx Operational Expenditure PPP Public-Private Partnership PVRA Participatory Vulnerability and Risk Assessment RCP Representative Concentration Pathway SDG Sustainable Development Goals SEP Stakeholder Engagement Plan SPV Special Purpose Vehicle UNDRR United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction UNEP United Nations Environment Programme USAID United States Agency for International Development VfM Value for Money WBG World Bank Group WCRP World Climate Research Programme Climate Resilient Infrastructure Handbook | 1 Preface Climate change threatens critical infrastructure systems through rising temperatures, changing precipitation, extreme weather events, and sea level rise.