Pathways for Global Infrastructure Resilience: A CDRI White Paper

CDRI Infrastructure Resilience Nature-based Infrastructure Solutions, NbIS Disaster Risk Finance
Strengthening infrastructure resilience is a major global contemporary challenge.  Current Infrastructure investment in LMIC is at least an order of magnitude lower than the projected needs. This White Paper summarizes some of the key challenges that need to be addressed to
strengthen global infrastructure resilience It draws on evidence from the new Global Infrastructure Risk Model and Resilience Index (GIRI, 2023) to highlight how these challenges manifest in different income and regional geographies and infrastructure sectors. It then focuses on a range of opportunities and pathways to strengthen infrastructure resilience, including through the upscaling of Nature based Infrastructure Solutions (NbIS), the strengthening of infrastructure governance and the mobilization of private capital.