The purpose of the Resilient Water Infrastructure Design Brief is to guide users on how resilience can be built into the engineering design of their project. With a focus on the three natural hazards most likely to affect water and sanitation infrastructure (droughts, floods, and high winds from storms), the document provides a six-step process to help users address weather and climate related challenges that are most likely to affect an infrastructure component at some point in its operational lifetime.
Disasters offer the opportunity, with the right frameworks in place, to strengthen competitiveness through build back, better initiatives, and to adapt to long-term climate change and disaster risks. Despite these insights, and the urgency to act, however, the evidential basis for policy intervention and conceptual frameworks for industry resilience are far from definitive, and gaps in knowledge remain. As a result, industry resilience policy and action remain low in both the public and private sectors, and firms and economies still face significant costs of inaction.
This report analyses the consequences for the labour force of Western Macedonia’s (Greece) decarbonisation as part of Europe’s new Green Deal.
This report presents the case to government decision-makers, tourism private sector stakeholders, and development partners that the tourism industry must act urgently to integrate resilience as a core component of its competitiveness agenda.
There is a unique opportunity to build back stronger during post-pandemic recovery efforts. Focusing stimulus packages on energy-related interventions that can help sub-Saharan African countries move quickly to become carbon-neutral economies can generate positive spillover effects into other sectors.