摘要:Developing countries are faced with a substantial
and persistent infrastructure deficit. Climate change
complicates this challenge, affecting the way we design
and manage infrastructure (defined here as transport,
power, water and sanitation) and increasing costs.
But all is not negative: Climate change affects both
the economic and financial analysis of infrastructure
projects in a way that could help achieve longpursued
but elusive goals, such as better maintenance
and greener, more efficient design. Further, climate
finance could bring additional financing, although
that will require increasing the scale of available
resources and addressing the fact that climate finance
tends to provide ex post financing, ill-suited to a
sector characterized by a need for substantial ex ante
funding.