Infrastructure systems worldwide are facing increasing pressure from climate and disaster risks, with impacts extending beyond physical damage to affect economic growth, public finances, and social well-being. These risks are particularly pronounced in the Pacific region, where geographic exposure and structural vulnerabilities amplify the consequences of infrastructure disruptions.

In this context, the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure, through its Global Infrastructure Resilience Report, provides a comprehensive assessment of infrastructure risk and resilience globally. While the inaugural Global Infrastructure Resilience Report (GIR 2023) grounded in data, evidence, and analytics through the Global Infrastructure Risk Model & Resilience Index (GIRI), introduced the concept of the resilience dividend (highlighting the long-term benefits of investing in resilience) across areas such as resilient finance and nature-based solutions, the Second Global Infrastructure Resilience Report (GIR 2025), launched at COP30, builds on this foundation by deepening the analysis and strengthening its practical relevance.

The report moves beyond identifying risks to offering actionable pathways for resilience, with a focus on three core capacities: absorbing shocks, responding effectively, and recovering rapidly. It further advances the operationalization of the resilience dividend by linking risk insights with financial, technological, and institutional dimensions of infrastructure resilience.

As part of its ongoing dissemination efforts, CDRI is organizing a dedicated webinar with the Pacific Region Infrastructure Facility (PRIF) to present the key findings, insights, and frameworks from GIR 2025. The session will present a structured overview of the report with a focus on how its evidence base can support infrastructure planning, investment, and policy decisions.

The webinar will be organized around the core workstreams of GIR 2025:

• Risk Assessment through GIRI 2.0: Highlighting advancements in the first model, GIRI 2.0 includes expanded hazard coverage, sectoral analysis, and projections of future risk under different development pathways.
• Macroeconomic Impacts: Presenting insights from integrated modelling on the economy-wide effects of infrastructure failures, including impacts on GDP, productivity, and long-term development, and the importance of timely recovery and reconstruction.
• Global Infrastructure Resilience Surveys (For Experts, Professionals, and Businesses): GIRS, conducted under GIR 2025, captures perspectives from both experts and professionals as well as businesses. It highlights critical gaps between policy intent and implementation on the ground, including challenges related to institutional capacity, financing, technology adoption, and preparedness.
• Resilience Finance: Examining the scale of the resilience financing gap and identifying strategies to shift from reactive to proactive investment, including the use of layered financial instruments and more efficient allocation of resources.
• Institutions and Governance: Exploring how governance systems shape resilience outcomes, with a focus on institutional capacity, coordination, regulatory frameworks, and integration of resilience across infrastructure lifecycles.
• Technologies for Resilient Infrastructure: Demonstrating how emerging technologies can improve infrastructure performance across the resilience framework and enable better decision-making, and support faster recovery.
• Nature-based Solutions (NbS): Highlighting how NbS can complement traditional infrastructure approaches by reducing risks, supporting recovery, and delivering multiple co-benefits, while emphasizing the need to scale hybrid solutions.

Through these workstreams, the webinar will demonstrate how GIR 2025 offers a comprehensive and integrated framework for strengthening DRI in the Pacific context. By facilitating this exchange, CDRI aims to support stakeholders including government agencies, regional organizations, development partners, financial institutions, infrastructure operators, and technical experts, in translating evidence into action.