This case study explores the implementation of the Climate-Resilient Infrastructure Stress Test for Bangladesh. Led by Bangladesh's Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MOEFCC), the assessment brought together expertise via the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) and the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), with technical analyses undertaken by the University of Oxford and the Center for Environmental and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS) in Bangladesh, and support from the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management of the Netherlands. With the aim of evaluating climate risks to infrastructure and of prioritizing adaptation investments, the project is a pioneering effort to use advanced climate models and geospatial data to safeguard critical infrastructure in one of the world's most climate-vulnerable nations. By identifying and mitigating risks to key sectors, the initiative has demonstrated how to strengthen resilience through a systematic and data-driven approach for pre-identifying potential points of concern within the infrastructure domain, thus informing advance action that can protect millions of lives and livelihoods and critical assets.

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