Critical infrastructure

Using LEGO-inspired interlocking concrete block systems and adapting them for structural housing purposes, Mr Mathavanyakam aims to significantly reduce building time, lower labour demands and decrease construction costs.

Air conditioning is increasingly the go-to when heatwaves strike. However, not only does this lead to more emissions, it also puts increasing strain on the electricity grid – even culminating in deadly blackouts.

Rising temperatures can affect our power supply, including nuclear and natural-gas power plants

The study aims to assess Delhi's increasing heat stress and looks into propose roadmap that combines year-round city-wide heat resilience measures with targeted interventions for vulnerable groups.

This scoping note examines how intensifying heat-waves threaten every link of India’s power-sector value chain and outlines a roadmap for climate-ready electricity systems.

In more than a century of operation, the authorities that manage the Panama Canal have accumulated some valuable lessons in risk governance that are relevant to other major infrastructure systems – and to disaster risk reduction more broadly.

This policy paper analyses the mainstreaming of climate resilience into Mongolia's transport infrastructure before the bulk of the country's planned network is built.

There is a need for methods that can sustain reliable forecasting using potentially incomplete or unavailable sensor data to help limit downtime at power plants and maintain continuity during periods of sensor disruption.