Climate change poses a significant threat to infrastructure, with rising sea levels, extreme weather phenomena, and escalating temperatures posing substantial physical risks. These hazards can lead to the degradation of crucial infrastructure assets, undermining social, economic, and environmental stability.
Recent analysis by EDHECInfra, as featured in the Global Infrastructure Hub's Infrastructure Monitor report, underscores the scale of the situation. Projections based on current climate and policy scenarios indicate that by 2050, infrastructure assets could see a net value decline of 4.4% on average, and up to 26.7% in the most severe scenarios. This depreciation is a direct consequence of the lack of resilience of global infrastructure to the effects of climate change.
The consequences of inaction are far-reaching, affecting not just the financial performance of assets, but also the economic, environmental, and social fabric of communities worldwide. One promising strategy to mitigate these risks involves the adoption of a systemic resilience metrics (SRM) framework tailored specifically to infrastructure.
In this article, we explain the regulatory barriers that face the infrastructure asset class and that discourage the uptake of commonly used credit-risk mitigation instruments, and how we are working toward addressing these challenges.
In this article, we explain the regulatory barriers that face the infrastructure asset class and that discourage the uptake of commonly used credit-risk mitigation instruments, and how we are working toward addressing these challenges.
We speak with the Colouring Cities Research Programme’s Polly Hudson on how open platforms for building attribute data will help to solve common urban challenges, and help increase the quality, sustainability, efficiency, and resilience of buildings.
We ask the Miundo Misingi Hub’s Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Johnson Kilangi, for his views on how sustainable and socially responsible projects yield long-term benefits, and how capacity building is key to improving infrastructure development and inclusive growth across Africa.
The ability of MDBs to maintain their central role in sustainable development in developing countries hinges on the banks’ ability to increase investing capacity and meet the needs of those countries.
We recently spoke with the GIIA’s new CEO, Jon Phillips, who shares his priorities, his thoughts on opportunities and challenges facing the infrastructure sector, and how the GIIA is responding.
The GI Hub is working with governments and other stakeholders to define transition pathways for infrastructure to meet net zero and sustainable development goals.
Scaling up existing multilateral solutions and developing new ones are key to increasing much-needed private investment in infrastructure in emerging and developing markets. In her latest article, our CEO, Marie Lam-Frendo shares her thoughts on de-risking instruments as one solution.
Founded in 2022, the GI Hub’s Private Sector Advisory Council (PSAC) acts as a crucial bridge for dialogue, input, and action that aims to increase private sector participation in sustainable infrastructure.