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Unlocking finance for resilient port infrastructure: Insight paper
Port systems provide a useful way to ground the challenge of financing resilience in real-world scenarios. They are economic lifelines that connect global trade, energy systems, food supply chains…
Transforming Engineering Education for the 21st Century: Learning from Practitioners
This report explores the role of academia in preparing future engineers with the knowledge, skills and mindsets required for addressing today’s pressing climate and sustainability challenges.
The Climate Resilient Infrastructure Report: A Focus on Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion
This report illustrates how Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion are critical to the development of sustainable and resilient infrastructure.
Resilience4Ports (R4P): Port Decision Makers’ Guide to Climate Risk Assessment (CRA)
Port Decision Makers’ Guide to Climate Risk Assessment (CRA) is an essential first step in helping ports understand, anticipate, and respond to the impacts of climate change. A structured…
Advocacy and Storytelling for Climate Action Learning Pathway
This Learning Pathway brings together a diverse range of free resources: inspiring talks, toolkits, online courses, research, and real-world examples to empower the new generation of engineers to communicate…
Nature-based Solutions Learning Pathway
This Learning Pathway is a comprehensive resource designed to help young engineers deepen their knowledge of nature-based solutions and apply it in practice.
Resilience4Ports: Strategic Plan 2025-27
This 2025-2027 Strategic Plan sets out the vision, mission, strategic goals and implementation roadmap for positioning port systems as the starting point for building a more resilient, sustainable, and…
Engineering Leadership Group: Charter
The Engineering Leadership Group (ELG) is the collective voice of the engineering services community for how society responds to the most challenging issues of infrastructure sustainability.
Engineering Climate Adaptation: A Cross-Sector Approach to Scaling Up Adaptation Finance
This report synthesises and analyses key themes emerging from a series of roundtable discussions including the need to break down professional silos, align risk assessment methodologies, and foster greater…
Resilience4Ports: Moving the Needle on Port Resilience
This Resilience4Ports report highlights examples of scalable solutions, approaches and tangible actions being taken by port actors around the world to lower their carbon footprint and make their infrastructure…
The Climate Resilient Infrastructure Report: A Focus on Technology
This report showcases platforms, tools and emerging digital technologies that advance climate-resilient infrastructure, as well as projects and initiatives that have incorporated them.
Understanding the Landscape of Global Engineering Capacity and Capability
This position paper assesses the current state of global engineering capacity and capability and explores the necessity of and difficulties in reliably measuring and monitoring the engineering workforce’s ability…
Accelerating Risk-Informed Investments in Climate-Resilient Urban Infrastructure: A framework-based approach
This policy brief provides a framework to accelerate investments in climate-resilient critical infrastructure, emphasising risk quantification and a lifecycle approach for enhancing resilience. The brief also highlights the crucial…
Lloyd’s Register Foundation Foresight Review: Nature-positive Engineering
This Foresight Review zooms in on Nature Positive Engineering (NPE), and will engage stakeholders in an effort to define and bring clarity to what NPE is and what positive…
Advocacy Positions for Funding and Financing Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure
These advocacy positions have been developed by the ICSI Action Track on Funding and Financing Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure. This set of key messages can be used to drive…
Engineering Change: Consultation Report
This report presents the key insights of a global consultation of young engineers and engineering managers undertaken between October and November 2023.
Upscaling infrastructure resilience through innovative financial approaches, governance, and practice
Increasing pressure on infrastructure systems has been compounded by fragmented governance and a lack of investment, pushing many of these systems toward an uncertain future. Climate change is expected…
The Climate Resilience Infrastructure Report: A Focus on nature
This publication highlights the relationship between climate-resilient infrastructure and nature, and showcases projects that incorporate natural elements in their planning, design, processes, or materials, or that positively impact natural…
Accelerating Implementation of Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience in Infrastructure
Infrastructure is the backbone of a safe, functioning, and prosperous society. It underpins sustainable development and plays a vital role in the implementation of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and…
The Climate Resilient Infrastructure Report: A focus on implementation
The Climate Resilient Infrastructure Report is the first in a series of annual publications to report progress on the implementation of climate resilient infrastructure, and to showcase curated best-practice…
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030: Reflections and Insights from the Global Engineering Community
The UNDRR’s Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction is undergoing a formal mid-term review to take stock of implementation and impact since its launch in 2015, understand what context…
Implementation Lab at COP27: Engineering the vision for climate-resilient transport
Transport infrastructure systems play a pivotal role in supporting society through provision of essential connectivity services to end-users, alongside enabling economic growth. To be able to deal with an…
Pushing the Boundaries of Innovation in Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure
ICSI, with the support of the ASCE and Arcadis, has developed an innovation framework for the promotion of resilient and sustainable infrastructure from around the world.
ICSI Roundtable: What is the engineering community’s role in bridging the gaps on climate, sustainability, and resilience for infrastructure?
This paper includes key takeaways from a roundtable discussion hosted by ICSI at COP26, as well as information on newly launched ICSI initiatives.
Green Recovery and Finance for Sustainable Infrastructure
This white paper addresses how public and private sector stakeholders can support the funding necessary to spur a green recovery by sufficiently funding the early stages of infrastructure project…
Developing and Accelerating Procurement Practices to Enable Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure
This paper identifies a lack of advice for implementing sustainable and resilient procurement practices across the whole infrastructure lifecycle.
A Review of the Landscape of Guidance, Tools and Standards for Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure
This paper explores what Guidance, tools and standards already exist for the development of sustainable and resilient infrastructure, and where key gaps are.