WORLD CITIES REPORT 2024

Infrastructure around the world is being affected and economic resilience of inhabitants to climate by climate change, and the costs resulting from change, address both the drivers of climate change and damaged assets, expensive repairs, service vulnerability, and be delivered in a way that contributes to disruptions and loss of life are expected to increase. [...] Not the promotion of “equitable and affordable access to sustainable basic only can well-designed and managed infrastructure accelerate pathways physical and social infrastructure for all”, and recognizes the significance to net-zero urban futures, but it can also protect communities from the of infrastructure in driving resource efficiency and resilience—a point inevitable negative impacts of cli. [...] By being responsive to the increased frequency The issue of equitable access to the benefits of climate-resistant and intensity of climate-related disasters, it also enhances the ability to infrastructure and its services are a key challenge. [...] Improving South, “heterogeneous infrastructure configurations” and a variety the provision of infrastructure and services particularly in deprived urban of non-uniform modes of service delivery have long existed.64 In such areas is crucial for addressing poverty and inequality, which in turn is situations, a host of initiatives of varying degrees of formality and with necessary for the development. [...] In the case of the BRT, these include the economic activity generated in the supply chain, such as through the production of buses and the sourcing of construction materials.