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Loading...Co-published by ADB and the Global Center on Adaptation, this technical note emphasizes that the evaluation of climate-related financial risks need to be broadened to include the planning, delivery, and management of national infrastructure plans.
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Loading...NYT and Four Twenty Seven Visual map to identify the top risks across the globe for each country. These present significant risks to infrastructure from heat stress, wildfires, floods etc.
Loading...Applications are open for Optigram 2021: A data visualisation competition from the National University of Singapore’s Lloyd’s Register Foundation Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk. The competition is aimed young people (18-35) to develop creative ways to communicate data and information on risk effectively.
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Loading...New report from the World Economic Forum that provides a global framework and recommends an integrated energy approach, defined as “systemic efficiency”, as a solution to the current environmental, economic, health and social crises.
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Loading...A roadmap and guide from the World Bank’s Water Global Practise for resilient water infrastructure. The cost reduction value add associated with spending on resilience is estimated to be $4.2 trillion over the useful life of new infrastructure.
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Loading...Former Governor of the Bank of England and Canada presents the annual BBC Reith Lectures covering financial markets, societal resilience and solving the climate challenge.
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Loading...Biden’s Secretary of Transportation nominee who will be responsible for updating the US’s transport infrastructure gave a preview of what his ideas might look.
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Loading...Marking the 5th anniversary of the Paris Agreement, the High Level Climate Champions launched of Race To Resilience the sibling campaign to Race To Zero. It’s aim is to catalyse action from non-state actors to help make 4 billion people from vulnerable groups and communities more climate resilient by 2030.
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Loading...Covid-19crisis presents a unique opportunity for the private and the public sectors to collaborate to move forward green and climate-resilient investments to provide jobs and economic stimulus in the medium term, while also providing long-term gains.
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Loading...New ICE research paper co-authored by Resilience Shift Technical Director, Juliet Mian, provide insight into how organisations are changing the basis of planning and investment decisions to enhance resilience.
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Loading...This article introduces the concept of environmental sustainability in ports and explains how to incorporate environmental indicators into modelling and decision making.
(From Science Direct, 2019)
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Loading...One year on from launching a new Climate Change Analysis Tool (CCAT), US Telecomms firm, AT&T announce further expansion of climate resilience and impact modelling in collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory (US).
The first years of CCAT’s work underscores vulnerability to climate change is not evenly distributed. Instead, underserved communities tend to face the greatest dangers while having the least embedded resilience to cope with disasters.
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Loading...The Getting to Zero Coalition has started mapping some of the many zero emission pilots and demonstration projects – sixty six of them – with hydrogen research leading the way in shipping’s pursuit of a clean fuel.
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Loading...Japanese shipbuilding giant Mitsubishi has announced that it will build and test a carbon-capture system for ships, aimed at significantly reducing the emissions of the maritime sector.
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Loading...This article describes the ways that an energy organization, the regional transmission operator PJM, is preparing for hurricanes during the COVID-19 pandemic. It has implications for policymakers working to maintain infrastructure resilience to natural hazards during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Loading...The Infrastructure Client Group and Institution of Civil Engineers are looking into the impacts of Covid-19 on infrastructure and what role the sector is likely to have in helping society recover from the pandemic.
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Loading...C40 has provided a curated collection of media and resources on topics relevant to mayoral teams and departments that are C40 touch-points: waste, food, buildings, transportation, public engagement, and many more.
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Loading...The Global Water Leaders Group has investigated how some of the members of its Leading Utilities of the World initiative have been responding to the outbreak.
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Loading...How do we build better cities after the coronavirus crisis? The World Bank’s Sameh Wahba joins Azeem Azhar to discuss how the World Bank partners with technologists to help cities on the frontline of the pandemic, and how the dynamism of urban density can be harnessed to build the livable and inclusive cities of the future.
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Loading...This paper reviews the impact of COVID-19 on socioeconomic systems, discusses the notion of resilience, and provides specifc recommendations on both integrating resilience analytics for recovery from the current crisis as well as on building resilient infrastructure to address future systemic challenges.
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Loading...To discuss the future of our transport network and how investment in infrastructure will help our economy recover, James Banks, host of AECOM’s Talking Infrastructure series, spoke to representatives from the HS2 high-speed rail project and the government agencies in charge of our roads and rail network, Highways England and Network Rail.
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Loading...This paper sets out UNDRR’s recommendations, lessons learned and highlights opportunities to build infrastructure resilience.
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Loading...This blog discusses how the coronavirus will most certainly offer new resilience opportunities for innovators as the PPP market recalibrates.
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Loading...This article explores the impact of Covid-19 on supply chains and argues that companies should plan for interruptions by mapping suppliers and buyers. They should also diversify their supply chain to mitigate any future disruptions.
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Loading...New Engineering X Pandemic Preparedness programme launched to support global innovation and knowledge sharing.
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Loading...Call to Action from the Planetary Emergency Partnership: Emerging from the Planetary Emergency and partnering between People and Nature
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Loading...Future Earth has published a rapid foresight survey on Covid-19 exploring global risks and opportunities for recovery and transformation. With this survey, Future Earth, the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and Environment, and other partners seek to spark critical reflection on the challenges, but also the opportunities, that this global crisis presents, and to contribute to what will soon emerge as a global conversation on where we go from here.
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Loading...Building transportation supply chain resilience after a pandemic – collated resources of TRB. The transportation industry is relying on the knowledge gained from past freight supply chain disruptions and documented by TRB to successfully handle COVID-19 and its aftermath.
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Loading...Covid19 spread shows up vulnerability at heart of nuclear programmes, with resilience of critical national infrastructures undermined.
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Loading...New OECD outlook on the global economy shared at G20 Summit – on the OECD’s website hub for Tackling coronavirus (Covid-19). Contributing to a global effort.
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