Guidance Ellen MacArthur Foundation
This report illustrates, across five key areas, how designing out waste, keeping materials in use, and regenerating farmland can significantly reduce emissions. It demonstrates how businesses, financial institutions, and policymakers can build a resilient economy while playing a valuable role in reaching climate targets.[1]
Guidance Arup
This report evaluates ways in which circular economy principles can be applied to the decommissioning of existing energy power plants, exploring the social, economic, and environmental benefits for local communities and surrounding areas. It further explores applications of circular economy principles in the design and operation of new power plants.[2]
Guidance Curtin University
This guidance introduces the magnitude and variety of net-positive end-of-life challenges to encourage the development of reasonable policies for current and future decommissioning projects. It provides the basis for the interdisciplinary thinking involved in delivering integrated decommissioning policies that incorporate circular economy principles to maximise value throughout the life cycle of energy infrastructure.[3]
Guidance World Bank
This provides practical guidance for designing national adaptation strategies and mainstreaming climate resilience into development planning. It also offers tools and actions to identify adaptation needs, prioritise interventions, and guide implementation and monitoring.[4]
Guidance United Nations
This handbook offers comprehensive guidance on infrastructure asset management, with Chapter 6 dedicated to climate resilience, covering climate impact on assets, hazard and risk assessment, and O&M-phase interventions to mitigate climate risk.[5]
Guidance Institute of Asset Management
This guide provides practical guidance on six core resilience capabilities for asset management, from horizon scanning and risk management to interdependency mapping and incident response.[6]
Guidance C40 Cities
This report outlines methodologies for assessing interdependencies between urban infrastructure systems. It also presents city-level pilot studies demonstrating practical application.[7]
Tool GFDRR
This tool promotes the enhancement of resilient, green, and inclusive built environments. It provides tools to support governments in assessing regulatory standards for construction and to identify gaps and opportunities for implementing climate resilience.[8]
Guidance Schuldt et al.
This report synthesises findings from 3,200+ construction studies, identifying extreme temperatures, precipitation, and high winds as the primary weather drivers of schedule delays, workforce productivity loss, and materials and equipment damage on construction sites. It provides the empirical foundation to justify climate risk preparedness in construction planning.[9]
Guidance ICSI
This guide bridges the gap between risk assessment and construction specification, offering port-specific resilience options (Table 6.1) including heat-resistant material requirements and digital infrastructure adaptation measures (Box 2.2), making it an actionable port resource for practitioners defining Quality Control and Quality Assurance (QC/QA) requirements.[10]
Guidance European Commission
This guidance integrates climate proofing with project cycle management, environmental impact assessments (EIA), and strategic environmental assessments (SEA) processes. It serves as a mandatory compliance framework for any infrastructure project seeking EU funding (InvestEU, CEF, ERDF, Cohesion Fund).[11]
Guidance UNEP
This guide provides an overview of fundamental types of resilience interventions at the building scale with specific approaches for building envelope, roof, structure, orientation, and materials. Although tailored toward a developing country context, the majority of techniques can be upscaled and applied to any context.[12]
Guidance World Bank
This step-by-step guide incorporates climate considerations into PPP projects, including ready-to-use tables, figures, and example KPIs. It contains guidance on bid evaluation frameworks and climate requirements for procurement.[13]
Guidance IDB
This toolkit covers the full procurement sequence from RFQ to contract, providing climate risk criteria for pre-qualification, RFP decision-making frameworks, performance indicator integration, disaster risk management plan templates, bid evaluation structures, and PPP payment mechanism design.[14]
Guidance ICSI
This port-specific, practitioner-oriented guide covers climate risk assessments aligned with ISO 14090/14901. It provides a procurement scoping checklist in Annex A and specifies RFQ selection criteria for technical partners.[15]
Guidance GCA
This handbook covers climate resilience across the infrastructure life cycle. It is useful for practitioners designing post-award contract management frameworks, including monitoring and evaluating climate-resilient performance requirements.[16]
Framework ISO 20400:2017
This international standard provides principles and process guidance for sustainable procurement, covering risk prioritisation, supplier engagement, evaluation criteria design, and dispute resolution mechanisms.[17]
Tool ETH Zürich
This is an open-source tool integrating hazard exposure and vulnerability data to assess cascading risks. It provides port designers and planners with a quantitative modelling capability to translate climate projections into asset-level risks.[18]
Guidance World Bank
This is a port-specific guide to nature-based solutions (NbS). It covers four NbS types relevant to port design as well as a practical NbS selection framework[19].
Guidance ICSI
This is a port-specific, practitioner-oriented guide to conducting climate risk assessments, aligned with ISO14090/14091. It provides a two-level climate risk assessment guidance as well as checklists for scoping design-phase risk assessments.[20]
Framework PIANC
This report provides a 2023 update to PIANC’s foundational climate science report for the waterborne transport sector. It provides updated design-relevant climate projections, including sea-level rise, wave action, storm surge, ocean acidification, and morphological change.[21]
Framework PIANC
This framework provides the methodology for climate adaptation planning in ports and inland waterways—an end-to-end design process framework with port-specific templates in Annexes 1A, 2A, 3, and 4 that practitioners can apply directly.[22]
Guidance BCG
This report outlines how governments, investors, businesses, and communities can work together to turn resilience needs into investable opportunities. It also presents six archetypes for private-sector involvement in climate resilience collaborations to clarify the business value and provide pathways for action.[23]
Guidance Climate Bonds Initiative
This methodology is a science-based classification and screening system for climate-resilience investments. It tells issuers, investors, policymakers, and market observers what counts as a credible resilience investment and how to check it across seven themes, including infrastructure.[24]
Guidance OECD
This guidance defines five principles for donors and other finance providers on how to best use blended finance to scale up finance, crowd in private capital, and partner effectively.[25]
Guidance KPMG
This guide establishes a classification and taxonomy of adaptation and resilience (A&R) activities and provides principles and best practices to integrate resilience into financial decision-making. It also lays out a high-level action plan for the finance sector, including developing internal expertise on adaptation finance, identifying pipeline projects, and partnering with governments to structure deals.[26]
Guidance G20
This report provides guidance on mainstreaming climate resilience into infrastructure finance. It also discusses how to mobilise additional finance for resilient infrastructure.[27]
Guidance UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
This guidebook presents a step-by-step approach to resilience building in the maritime supply-chain. It sets out risk identification and assessment, as well as what the resilience building process for ports could look like.[28]
Guidance Arup
This framework identifies how key actors can approach and achieve system-wide port resilience.[29]
Guidance R4P
This practical port-specific tool for commissioning and using climate risk assessments is the best “start here” tool for ports because it translates climate-risk evidence into feasibility, project preparation, investment planning, and financeable adaptation actions.[30]
Guidance United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
This guideline provides ten principles covering the whole life cycle of infrastructure projects. It serves as a reference for governments to align national infrastructure pipelines with sustainability and resilience goals.[31]
Framework World Bank
This methodology scores and benchmarks resilience in projects and portfolios, thereby linking resilience outcomes directly to investor due diligence requirements. It provides a common language for multilateral development banks (MDBs) and financiers on climate resilience.[32]
Framework United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
This resource provides outcome- and service-oriented framing of resilience at the system level and stresses life cycle resilience and integration into all project phases. It is a widely recognised baseline for governments, financiers, and practitioners.[33]
Guidance International Transport Forum (ITF)
This guidance explains how to integrate resilience into transport cost-benefit analysis, including disruption risks from extreme weather, infrastructure failure, pandemics, cyber-attacks, and geopolitical shocks. It further provides step-by-step appraisal guidance on alternatives, impacts, uncertainty, monetisation, discounting, and sensitivity analysis, supported by international transport examples.[34]
Guidance Hoover Institution
This guidance provides strategies that can drive the design, funding, and building of climate-resilient infrastructure to produce robust and sustainable infrastructure, more cost-effective investments, and reliable services.[35]
Tool ICLEI ACCCRN
This toolkit enables local governments to assess their climate risks in the context of urbanisation, poverty, and vulnerability and to formulate corresponding resilience strategies.[36]
Guidance OECD
This OECD report emphasises that governments may embed climate resilience across the full infrastructure life cycle to reduce lock-in, vulnerability, and long-term economic and social costs. This report also highlights the strong economic returns and co-benefits of resilient infrastructure, calling for whole-of-government action, improved financing, and wider use of nature-based solutions[37].
Guidance Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure
This CDRI report brings a unique body of evidence to make a compelling economic, political, and financial case to radically upscale investment in infrastructure resilience. Alongside this, it provides the Global Infrastructure Risk Model and Resilience Index (GIRI), offering publicly available risk and resilience metrics across countries and territories[38].
Guidance World Bank Group
This World Bank Group report provides a framework for strengthening infrastructure resilience to natural shocks, drawing on global evidence and practical examples. It further sets out actionable policy recommendations for policy- and decision-makers and other stakeholders to improve infrastructure resilience[39].
Guidance World Bank Group
This guide from the World Bank Group provides practical guidance for designing national adaptation strategies and mainstreaming climate resilience into development planning. Its tools and actions help identify adaptation needs, prioritise interventions, and guide implementation and monitoring[4].
