The Global Infrastructure Resilience (GIR) Report

The First Global Infrastructure Resilience (GIR) Report, published by the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) in October 2023, marked a significant milestone in the global efforts to advance disaster and climate-resilient infrastructure. Addressing the unique challenges faced by Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), it outlined pathways for strengthening resilience by leveraging data from the first-ever fully probabilistic global risk assessment of infrastructure assets – the Global Infrastructure Risk Model & Resilience Index (GIRI). GIR provided data-driven, country-specific risk metrics to support investments in infrastructure resilience, with pathways for scaling up finance, applying Nature-based Infrastructure Solutions (the thematic focus of the first edition), and strengthening infrastructure governance. Most importantly, by reframing resilience from a cost to an opportunity, the Report emphasized the idea of a “resilience dividend” that can generate long-term benefits for all stakeholders alike.

Following its success, the upcoming Second Global Infrastructure Resilience Report (GIR 2025), to be released at COP30 in November 2025, builds directly on this foundation while broadening both its scope and depth. It seeks to address some of the questions raised during the preparation and dissemination of the First Report, expanding its remit and strengthening the connections between risk analysis and the financial, institutional, ecological, and technological dimensions of resilient infrastructure. GIR 2025 further aims to reinforce the evidence base and advocate for upscaling resilient infrastructure by shifting the conversation from defining what the resilience dividend is to exploring how it can be effectively realized.

About the GIR 2025 DRI Dialogue Series

In the lead-up to the launch of the GIR 2025, CDRI is hosting a curated series of thematic dialogues on CDRI’s premier knowledge exchange, learning, and collaborative platform - DRI Connect, scheduled between September and October 2025.

Spanning five thematic DRI Dialogues on governance, finance, nature-based solutions, technology, and risk assessment, the series will bring together global experts and practitioners to share insights and reflect on the narratives within each of the report’s workstreams. Through interactive formats such as fireside chats, panel discussions, and lightning talks, the dialogues will encourage both reflection and exchange of ideas, led by speakers who have contributed to GIR 2025 as authors and advisors, alongside other notable global experts with deep expertise and nuanced understanding of each of the themes, with the objective to:

• Understand what is new in GIR 2025 as compared to GIR 2023
• Provide an exclusive preview of the emerging messages and unique value proposition of GIR 2025, including more nuanced risk modelling, actionable roadmaps and frameworks, and practical case studies
• Explore how finance, nature-based solutions, governance, technology, and risk assessment strategies for resilient infrastructure may be leveraged to capture the ‘resilience dividend’
• Demonstrate how GIR 2025 positions itself as a key knowledge product for advancing disaster and climate resilient infrastructure globally

DRI Dialogue in Focus: Technologies for Resilient Infrastructure

This Dialogue on “Technology for Resilient Infrastructure” builds on the emerging narrative and key findings of the corresponding workstream under GIR 2025. At its core, it aims to explore how technologies can strengthen infrastructure systems across their lifecycle, enabling them to better absorb, respond to, and recover from disasters. As witnessed, rapid technological advances are opening new opportunities for achieving resilience across users, assets, and systems. Against this backdrop, the Dialogue provides a platform for experts to discuss the challenges and barriers to technology adoption, explore mechanisms for coordinated implementation, assess the rationale for financing, and identify pathways to translate technological opportunities into sustainable, inclusive, and measurable resilience outcomes.

Stay tuned for further updates on programme details and speaker line-ups.