Climate resilience
Infrastructure financing
Financing for Resilient Roads
Financing for Resilient Roads
Examines how MDB climate finance methods address road adaptation, and whether they match the climate risks and economic realities of borrowing…
Project ID: WRI 4
Lead: World Resources Institute (WRI)
Workstream: Transport research
At a glance
Region Asia
Duration February 2026 – March 2027
Identification of climate risks and adaptation measures
Co-design of a practical risk–intervention framework
Risk–intervention typology for financing resilient roads
How do MDB climate finance methodologies influence the design of road adaptation measures, and do these investments respond adequately to climate risks?
Research activities
Assessment of how MDB-funded road projects identify climate risks and design adaptation
Co-design of a risk–intervention framework
Recommendations
Planned research outputs
Policy brief
Case studies
Risk–intervention typology
Presentations
Relevance & uptake
Advice to MDBs · engagement with IRF and CCFLA
Implemented by
World Resources Institute (WRI)
Meet us at
IRF 2026 Annual Conference, Transforming Transportation