Emerging Trends in Mainstreaming Climate Resilience in Large Scale, Multi-sector Infrastructure PPPs

Economic infrastructure is expensive and long-lasting, and the dams, power plants, roads and water treatment plants being built today must be able to withstand not yesterday’s or today’s climate, but a future, changing climate. Nowhere is this more relevant than in developing countries, where governments and development partners are racing to ll the infrastructure gap, which in Africa alone is estimated to require $93 billion annually over the next decade.