GIR 2025 DRI Dialogue 3: Financial instruments and Nature-based Solutions for Resilient Infrastructure

  • Boogaard, F. (Speaker)
  • Alexandre Chavarot (Speaker)
  • Raina Singh (Speaker)

Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk

Description

The Global Infrastructure Resilience Report

The First Global Infrastructure Resilience (GIR) Report, published by the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) in October 2023, marked a significant milestone in the global efforts to advance disaster and climate-resilient infrastructure. Addressing the unique challenges faced by Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), it outlined pathways for strengthening resilience by leveraging data from the first-ever fully probabilistic global risk assessment of infrastructure assets – the Global Infrastructure Risk Model & Resilience Index (GIRI). GIRI provided data-driven, country-specific risk metrics to support investments in infrastructure resilience, with pathways for scaling up finance, applying Nature-based Infrastructure Solutions (the thematic focus of the first edition), and strengthening infrastructure governance. Most importantly, by reframing resilience from a cost to an opportunity, the Report emphasized the idea of a “resilience dividend” that can generate long-term benefits for all stakeholders alike.

Following its success, the upcoming Second Global Infrastructure Resilience Report (GIR 2025), to be released at COP30 in November 2025, builds directly on this foundation while broadening both its scope and depth. It seeks to address some of the questions raised during the preparation and dissemination of the First Report, expanding its remit and strengthening the connections between risk analysis and the financial, institutional, ecological, and technological dimensions of resilient infrastructure. GIR 2025 further aims to reinforce the evidence base and advocate for upscaling resilient infrastructure by shifting the conversation from defining what the resilience dividend is to exploring how it can be effectively realized.

https://driconnect.cdri.world/events/financial-instruments-naturebs-resilient-infrastructure
Period14 Oct 2025
Event titleGIR 2025 DRI Dialogue 3 NBS
Event typeWorkshop

Keywords

  • nature-based solutions
  • infrastructure resilience

Research Focus Areas Hanze University of Applied Sciences * (mandatory by Hanze)

  • No Hanze research focus area applicable

Research Focus Areas Research Centre or Centre of Expertise * (mandatory by Hanze)

  • Sustainability

Publinova themes

  • Spatial Planning and Policy
  • Nature and Agriculture

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