Cost and Benefit Modelling for Resilient Infrastructure

We are starting to see the global financial markets ask questions about how to assess and price the impacts of climate change. There is increasing demand for improved climate-related disclosures.

The markets want to understand how it affects impacts on physical assets, liability and the cost of stranded assets (transition risk).

As the financial services industry matures its treatment of infrastructure risk, weak resilience planning will increase costs and lower value for asset owners through borrowing, and insurance costs and valuation.

Likewise, investors and rating agencies will increasingly require organizations to demonstrate their capability to manage the threat of attacks or extreme weather events. Those able to demonstrate resilience will enjoy significant advantages, and negotiate discounted premiums.

Goal: Adaptation of a free infrastructure cost modeling tool to reflect the costs and benefits of building resilience into city plans.

Expected results: Tool available for both public and private decision-making process when planning resiliency of infrastructure within city plans.