Tracking Investments in Climate Resilient Infrastructure

This research paper by the Climate Policy Initiative evaluates methodologies for tracking investments in climate resilient infrastructure (CRI). The study pilots a framework based on five climate resilience principles across the water, transport, energy, and AFOLU sectors, finding that CRI investments are a small fraction of total infrastructure spending, with USD 87 spent on non-resilient projects for every USD 1 spent on CRI.

• There is a significant imbalance in global climate finance, with nearly 90% focused on climate mitigation (such as renewable energy and low carbon transport) rather than climate resilient infrastructure.
• The OECD estimates that by 2030, annual infrastructure investments of USD 6.9 trillion will be required to achieve sustainable development goals.
• A pilot database of over 4,000 CRI projects financed in 2019/20 reveals that CRI investments are in nascent stages; for every USD 1 invested in CRI, USD 87 is spent on infrastructure that does not integrate climate resilience principles.
• Data from the GRESB Infrastructure Asset Assessment 2022 indicates that less than 30% of participating entities used physical scenarios to evaluate asset-level resilience strategies, and fewer than 60% (representing USD 686 billion in asset value) systematically assessed the material financial impacts of physical climate risks.
• Current climate-related disclosure standards, including TCFD recommendations, lack evolved metrics and targets for physical climate risks compared to transition risks, and fail to integrate double materiality regarding impacts on systemic and community resilience.

APA

Climate Policy Initiative (2022). Tracking Investments in Climate Resilient Infrastructure. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/publication/tracking-investments-in-climate-resilient-infrastructure/

Chicago

Climate Policy Initiative. Tracking Investments in Climate Resilient Infrastructure. 2022. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/publication/tracking-investments-in-climate-resilient-infrastructure/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{climatepolicyinitiative2022tracking, author = {{Climate Policy Initiative}}, title = {{Tracking Investments in Climate Resilient Infrastructure}}, institution = {Climate Policy Initiative}, year = {2022}, month = dec, url = {https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/publication/tracking-investments-in-climate-resilient-infrastructure/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }