Building Infrastructure Resilience in the Mountain Regions: Navigating Challenges and Opportunities

The accelerated rate of climate change has increased the frequency of extreme events like floods and landslides, severely impacting mountain regions and local communities. These events disrupt critical infrastructure—roads, healthcare, and power networks—affecting essential services. Developing adequate infrastructure in these areas is crucial but often exacerbates ecological risks. Costly infrastructure projects face added challenges from these hazards, necessitating balanced development and risk-informed investments. A standardized risk assessment framework, aligned with global climate initiatives, could enhance resilience across vulnerable regions. To address this gap, the Council has developed a scalable framework to assess risks to critical infrastructure from extreme climate events, identifying key drivers and proposing adaptive solutions. The session will explore how such frameworks can be standardized and expanded across mountain regions through global collaboration, focusing on best practices and overcoming challenges in mountain infrastructure resilience.

Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW)