Launched by Hon. Prime Minister of India, Shri. Narendra Modi at the UN Climate Action Summit at New York on 23 September 2019, the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) is a partnership of national governments, UN agencies and programmes, multilateral development banks and financing mechanisms, the private sector, and academia that aims to promote the resilience of new and existing infrastructure systems to climate and disaster risks in support of sustainable development.
CDRI’s Infrastructure for Resilient Island States (IRIS) initiative had announced the First Call for Proposals at COP27 in Egypt last year
Awarded projects will focus on Multi-Hazard Early Earning System, Retrofitting Housing Strategy, Climate Resilient Transport Infrastructure, a... (more)