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As cities grow, so do emissions. Greenhouse gas emissions are projected to increase by more than 2.5 times by 2050 in Africa alone, driven by large transformations in urbanisation, industrialisation and electrification. Abating these emissions is possible through the promotion of low-carbon infrastructure and life cycle approach when designing infrastructure and buildings.
As a commodity trading company, we understand the critical importance of adapting to the evolving challenges posed by climate change. From climate resilient infrastructure projects in Dubai to fostering infrastructure resilience in Australia, our global operations prioritise sustainability and resilience. We navigate the climate change impacts through ensuring supply chain resilience and strategically sourcing global commodities.
Circular economies can help meet the needs of a growing urban population through climate-smart agriculture for enhanced food security, resilient and sustainable infrastructure to fill the housing gap, low-carbon and efficient energy to reduce energy poverty, resource-efficient industries to advance low-carbon industrialization and more robust livelihood opportunities.
Reducing emissions is possible through the promotion of low-carbon infrastructure and life cycle approach when designing infrastructure and buildings.
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Building Climate Resilience
What is climate change adaptation & climate resilience?
The need for Climate Resilient Infrastructure
The need for Climate Resilient Infrastructure. From Cyclone Ida in West Africa, to searing heatwaves in Europe, hurricane Dorian in the Caribbean, we are already paying a heavy economic cost for the consequences of climate change. Extreme weather patterns seem par for the course in any given recent, meaning catastrophic effects on infrastructure. However, to limit the considered impact to flattened homes, exchausted reservoirs or flooded villages is to ignore the consequences for wider humanity. Urbanisation, water demand, migration – all are effected by the direct physical risks to people, assets and infrastructure which prevailing climatic conditions are bringing to bear. According to the Carbon Disclosure Project, there is over 1trn USD at risk over the next five years
Building Resilience
In recent times, there has been a groundswell in the environmental conscience of people, politicians and latterly investors – best witnessed by the urgency upon which now reducing greenhouse gas emissions is being addressed.
This is a very welcome development. However, such mitigation risks as yet have not addressed the need to invest heavily in climate resilient infrastructure – to reflect in our transport networks, accommodation and utilities. Californian wildfires were placed at the door of the Pacific Gas & Electric bankruptcy in the US – a bill that totalled billions of US Dollars.
Generally it is assumed infrastructure investments have an useful economic life of 30 years or more, so in building new power generation for example, it is not enough to consider weather patterns we are currently subject to, but a trenchant need to anticipate those of the coming decades. Without doing so, we will not be able to future and weather proof our communities. Unfortunately, it is often those low to middle income economies which are disproportionately hurt by power failures, flooding and droughts.
The process of adjustment of human and natural systems to the actual or expected impacts or effects of climate change. Itincludes adapting to short-term weather fluctuations, inter-annual variability, and longer-term changes over decodes, and it relates to adjustemnts in behaviours, practices, skill sets, naturalprocesses and knowledge that anticipate short, medium and long-term changes.
The ability of a human or natural system to withstand the impacts of exogenus shocks and the cope with or rebound from them. The term encompasses the capacity of a system to face multiple shocks and stressors-socioeconomic, market related, climate related-and withstand them.
The capacity of a system to cope with, or recover form, thiose effects, while retaining the essential components of the original system. Strengthening the resilince of a system to withstand climate-related shocks or stressors is where adaptation and resilience intersect.
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