Empowering local people to engineer their own futures: a new infrastructure planning approach
Empowering local people to engineer their own futures: a new infrastructure planning approach Image Children in Nicaragua after receiving school supplies as part of the UNICEF response to Hurricanes Eta and Iota. Climate change is challenging our status quo as the frequency of extreme weather events keeps increasing. Water scarcity could cost some regions up to 6% of GDP and floods could force hundreds of millions of people from their homes by 2050. At the same time, we’re facing a $15 trillion infrastructure finance gap. If these challenges weren’t enough, the COVID-19 crisis reminds us...