The global coalition focused on infrastructure resilience that wants to stop building the same road twice

The global coalition focused on infrastructure resilience that wants to stop building the same road twice
Resilience investment often doesn't stack up in business cases, but it does in real life, CDRI argues. (Image: NZME)
Dileepa Fonseka
A global coalition New Zealand joined in March is pushing for countries to recognise that building more resilient infrastructure can often deliver four times the initial investment in economic benefits.Sometimes these benefits come from something as fundamental as not having to rebuild what was washed away.Globally, there is an opportunity to build much more resilient infrastructure in the coming decades, according to the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI).The organisation has observed that more infrastructure will...

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