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Various types of infrastructure assets can have the potential to provide important benefits, from new jobs to ecosystem services, and avoid significant costs. Assessing these costs and benefits, however, requires a full understanding of the climate-related risks and externalities, which can only come from world-class data. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The International Institute for Sustainable Development<\/a> (IISD) and KnowlEdge<\/a>\u202f(KE) therefore joined forces with the Copernicus Climate Change Service<\/a> (C3S), one of the six thematic information services provided by the EU\u2019S Copernicus Earth Observation Programme.<\/a> Under this contract, we integrated world-class data on climate into our Sustainable Asset Valuation (SAVi) tool. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

C3S is operated by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) and is home to the landmark Climate Data Store, which provides a single-entry point for continuously updated climate data and products on the past, present, and future. This data comes from satellite and in-situ observations and models. \u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n

IISD and KE\u202fintegrated this data\u202finto our assessments to generate sophisticated SAVi analyses on the costs of climate-related risks and externalities. We applied this approach to four\u202fuse<\/em>\u202fcases of infrastructure projects in their design phase: <\/p>\n\n\n\n