Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group states that the infrastructure gap is enormous --an estimated USD 1 … will have great benefit for a range of developing countries. The Bank announced the creation of the Global Infrastructure … Facility, which is designed to attract financing for infrastructure needs. To combat Ebola, the Bank needed to move to an …

enabling institutional investment in "climate-smart" infrastructure projects in emerging markets that can help close the … interconnected layers of investment barriers specific to institutional investment in climate-smart infrastructure …

variations from these projections which means that planning for resilient wastewater infrastructure requires more detailed … seismic shaking and induced liquefaction. Overall, we demonstrate the significant risk that earthquakes can have on the WWTP …

actions taken (Section 2); a climate risk exposure landscape based on quantitative analysis deriving country pension fund … climate risk scores (Section 3); a complementary regulatory mapping and score that uses a combined quantitative and …

development prospects of affected regions. As such, climate change reinforces the development case for investment in disaster risk … complicates disaster risk management investment decisions, the analysis presented here shows that these considerations are only … for disaster risk management investment decisions. Accounting for climate uncertainty is likely to shift the optimal …

long-lived assets have both a direct financial risk to consider and the opportunity to create value by working proactively …