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unric.org
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https://unric.org/en/sustainable-infrastructure-a-synergy-between-climate-mit…
# Sustainable infrastructure: a synergy between climate mitigation and economic growth. Infrastructure and sustainable development are positively interlinked. Does that mean that the solution to fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and to saving our planet is to stop all construction of infrastructure? # Sustainable Development Goals and infrastructure. # Sustainable infrastructure. Sustainable infrastructure is planned, designed, constructed, operated, and decommissioned in a manner to ensure economic and financial, social, environmental (including climate resilience), and institutional sustainability over its entire life cycle. Sustainable infrastructure can help build resilience in countries while protecting against exposure to extreme climate change events. Sustainable infrastructure underpins the delivery of all the social SDGs. Improved access to basic services is one of the fundamental objectives of infrastructure development, and sustainable infrastructure that integrates electricity, transport, clean water, and sanitation services is closely associated with poverty alleviation. Below are two examples of sustainable infrastructure in practice in a developed country and in a developing country.
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brookings.edu
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https://www.brookings.edu/articles/delivering-on-sustainable-infrastructure-f…
The three central challenges now facing the global community, as crystallized in 2015, are to reignite global growth, deliver on the sustainable development goals (SDGs), and invest in the future of the planet through strong climate action. At the heart of this new global agenda is the imperative to invest in sustainable infrastructure. Investment in sustainable infrastructure can help generate employment, boost international trade, industrial growth, and competitiveness while reducing inequalities within and among countries. Ramping up ambition as well as spending on sustainable infrastructure is particularly timely, given the global macroeconomic context and the slowdown in growth and declines in investment in all regions, and when other policy instruments are highly constrained. A fourth means of jumpstarting growth at this juncture is public-private investments in sustainable infrastructure. In the medium term, investment in sustainable infrastructure can augment and improve the efficiency of energy, mobility and logistics—thereby boosting productivity and competitiveness in all sectors and spurring the domestic drivers of growth.
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oecd.org
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https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/infrastructure-for-a-climate-resilient-f…
To meet climate and development objectives by 2030, an annual investment of USD 6.9 trillion in sustainable infrastructure is needed globally.
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adaptation-undp.org
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https://www.adaptation-undp.org/climate-resilient-infrastructure
# 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.
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aiib.org
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https://www.aiib.org/en/about-aiib/who-we-are/infrastructure-for-tomorrow/gre…
Resilient infrastructure is about building systems that are robust, adaptable, and capable of long-term performance under changing climate conditions.
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scag.ca.gov
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https://scag.ca.gov/funding-and-financing-tools-and-strategy/resilient-and-su…
Integrating climate-smart infrastructure into local planning and infrastructure design is one strategy jurisdictions can implement to meet their climate
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sciencedirect.com
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844024095550
## Heliyon. Volume 10, Issue 13, 15 July 2024, e33524. # Research article Resilient green infrastructure: Navigating environmental resistance for sustainable development, social mobility in climate change policy. Author links open overlay panel,. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e33524Get rights and content. This research sought to thoroughly investigate, the links among green infrastructure, green technological innovation, policy stability, skill development, and their combined effects on social mobility and climate change (Case-1), it also discusses the global talk on climate change in COP27 and G20 (Case-2). The survey highlighted the complex perspectives and experiences of citizens with green programs and environmental legislation in the CPEC zone. Key stakeholders provided valuable insights into policy formulation and ongoing environmental sustainability efforts. Notably, the study identified a critical research gap in understanding these dynamics within regions undergoing substantial economic development. Policy formulation and continuing environmental sustainability efforts were aided by key stakeholders' ideas. Policymakers, environmental groups, and communities managing the fine line between economic success and environmental responsibility will find great value in the findings.
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worldwildlife.org
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https://www.worldwildlife.org/news/nature-breaking/how-sustainable-infrastruc…
This episode explains explains how we can build the infrastructure we need without destroying the ecosystems people and wildlife rely on.