CLIMATE RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) promotes climate-resilient infrastructure to prevent cascading failures caused by extreme weather and to reduce emissions from cement and steel production. GCF employs six core principles, including the use of nature-based solutions and systemic risk assessments, to unlock public and private capital. Current initiatives include developing valuation methodologies for nature-based solutions in Jamaica, strengthening infrastructure pipelines in Ghana, hurricane-proofing buildings in Antigua and Barbuda, and financing an electric Light Rail Transit system in Costa Rica.

• Infrastructure failures often trigger a 'domino effect' across multiple sectors, including transportation, telecommunications, water, energy, agriculture, and health, resulting in significant financial losses and threats to human security.
• The GCF applies six overarching principles to ensure infrastructure is resilient and sustainable: adopting a systems approach to avoid cascading failures, conducting climate risk assessments, combining mitigation with adaptation, integrating nature-based solutions, performing hydrological and geological studies to avoid maladaptation, and assessing the capacity of local institutions.
• GCF is partnering with the Government of Jamaica, the UK Government, Oxford University, and the Coalition for Climate Resilient Investment to create a methodology that physically and financially validates nature-based solutions as complements to hard infrastructure, which will eventually be turned into a toolkit for bankable projects.
• In Antigua and Barbuda, GCF is investing USD 32.7 million in a project (FP 133) to protect 96,000 people by climate-proofing public service and community buildings against hurricanes and tropical storms.
• GCF is co-financing an electric Light Rail Transit (LRT) system in San José, Costa Rica (FP166), with a total project value of USD 1.87 billion, aiming to avoid 7.6 million tonnes of emissions and benefit 2.7 million inhabitants through a design based on climate hazard vulnerability analysis.

APA

Green Climate Fund (n.d.). CLIMATE RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/gcf-thematic-brief-climate-resilient-infrastructure.pdf

Chicago

Green Climate Fund. CLIMATE RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE. n.d. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/gcf-thematic-brief-climate-resilient-infrastructure.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{greenclimatefundndclimate, author = {{Green Climate Fund}}, title = {{CLIMATE RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE}}, institution = {Green Climate Fund}, url = {https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/gcf-thematic-brief-climate-resilient-infrastructure.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }