CSI: Enhancing Climate Services for Infrastructure Investments

To supply their growing populations with energy and water, and to design sustainable transport systems, developing and emerging countries now have an increasing need for extensive physical infrastructure. All too often, however, climate risks and their associated costs fail to be addressed at the planning stage of such infrastructure projects. The CSI project is therefore advising government agencies and decision-makers in partner countries on the integration of climate services (targeted climate information and risk assessments) into investment planning. This aims to identify climate risks and create a set of sustainable adaptation options with viable funding strategies. The project is working to improve climate data and the evaluation of digital applications to create a market for climate services, while assessing climate risks (for bridges, barrages, power grids, and others) and preparing guidelines that aim to integrate climate risk assessments into investment planning at national level.