Project name: Codes, Standards, and Certifications
Infrastructure assets and systems face growing threats from geophysical and climate hazards, requiring practitioners to adapt planning, design, construction, and operations to reduce current and future disaster risks.
Infrastructure standards and building codes are crucial for scaling resilience, ensuring durability against future challenges.
CDRI advances this effort by promoting quality infrastructure certifications and supporting the development and revision of resilient infrastructure standards, prioritizing vulnerable countries to strengthen long-term sustainability and risk preparedness.
Supported: QII Principles, FAST-Infra Label, Blue Dot Network, Climate Bonds Initiative’s Resilience Taxonomy, and Source
Impact
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User-friendly tools help developers integrate resilience into projects, while public and private finance stakeholders establish incentives to mainstream resilience in project planning, ensuring sustainability and disaster preparedness from the outset.
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Case studies provide replicable resilient practices, demonstrating how resilience strategies enhance long-term infrastructure sustainability and climate adaptation.
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Quality infrastructure certifications create an investable asset class, enabling investors to identify resilient projects, reduce risks, and boost funding opportunities for infrastructure that withstands environmental and socio-economic challenges.