Infrastructure & Investment

Many world regions face increasing pressures from global and regional changes in climate, population growth, urban-area expansion, and the socio-economic impacts of fossil-based development. Human interference in the global climate system contributes significantly to changes in regional and local extreme weather and climate patterns.

Navigating the energy transition

We live at a time of increasing physical risk—exposure to detrimental climate change and/or weather extremes—as well as transition risk—particularly the financial impacts of fossil fuel assets losing their value in the needed rapid transition to a low-carbon economy aimed at stabilizing the climate. A better understanding of these risks could empower decision-makers in the public and private sectors to chart a more sustainable, equitable and prosperous future.

Global changes: Physical and transition risks

This project aims to elucidate the main climate-change-related threats for the electrical networks and main infrastructures affected, and how to define an adaptation pathway over time. It seeks to establish methods, identify the computational framework, and provide a demonstration of how a prediction system could be exercised in a risk-based assessment to identify proactive solutions toward electric network resilience, reliability and sustainability.

Assessment of Electric Power-Grid Network Damage Under a Changing Climate and Society

This year’s American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting will be held online, making it one of the world’s largest virtual scientific conferences ever. Held December 1-17 (with most scientific programming taking place December 7-11) and presenting more than 1,000 hours of content, AGU20 will feature live and pre-recorded oral presentations and virtual posters from leading Earth and space science researchers. The conference theme is “Shape the Future of Science."

AGU Fall Meeting goes online for 2020

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is at a crossroads. Recent long-term studies of the area indicate that rising temperatures and evaporation rates will likely further deplete scarce water resources critical to meeting the nation’s agricultural, industrial and domestic needs; more extreme flooding events could endanger lives, economic vitality and infrastructure; and a combination of increasing heat and humidity levels may ultimately render the Kingdom uninhabitable.

Saudi Arabia faces increased heat, humidity, precipitation extremes by mid-century

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