Adapting to climate change in the infrastructure sectors. Maintaining robust and resilient infrastructure systems in the energy, transport, water and ICT sectors

This study, commissioned by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) on behalf of the IAP and carried out by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), examines whether the different market, policy and regulatory models in the infrastructure sectors, together with Government policy and legislation more generally, provide adequate incentives (both positive and negative) to infrastructure providers to consider climate resilience across their existing economic infrastructure, and future investment in these sectors. The report’s findings and recommendations are not endorsed by Government but will be considered by the IAP as part of its two-year programme of work to identify and examine strategic solutions to improve the long-term resilience of new and existing infrastructure in the energy, ICT, transport and water sectors to future climate change impacts.