Enhancing the Climate Resilience of Africa's Infrastructure : The Power and Water Sectors

Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Key Messages -- Overview -- Africa's Infrastructure: A Key to Development but Potentially Vulnerable to Climate Change -- Risk of Inaction -- Adaptation to Climate Change under Uncertainty -- Adaptation to Climate Change at the Project Level -- Recommendations -- 1 Africa's Power and Water Infrastructure -- PIDA's Key Conclusions -- Scope and Time Horizon of the Study -- Value Added of the Report -- Limitations of the Analysis -- Notes -- References -- 2 Methodology -- Conceptual Framework -- Track 1: Analysis of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation at the Planning Stage -- Reference Case -- Estimation of Costs and Benefits -- Perfect Foresight Adaptation -- Robust Adaptation -- Water and Power System Modeling Tools -- Track 2 Analysis -- Notes -- References -- 3 Climate Change Projections in Africa -- Developing Climate Change Projections -- Temperature and Precipitation Results by Basin -- Note -- 4 Reference Investment Scenario -- Infrastructure Expansion beyond PIDA: PIDA+ -- Methodology -- Results -- Note -- References -- 5 Impacts of Climate Change on Infrastructure Performance -- Basin-Scale Performance of Infrastructure Relative to Overall Performance Targets -- Economic Costs of Ignoring Climate Change -- Note -- Reference -- 6 Adaptation to Climate Change in Infrastructure Planning -- Basin-Scale Analysis Overview: Scope and Value of Adaptation -- Perfect Foresight Adaptation -- Benefit of Perfect Foresight Adaptations across Climate Futures -- Regretting Adaptation When the Future Climate Is Unknown -- Robust Adaptation -- Inside Robust Adaptation -- Cost of Adaptation -- Benefits of Robust Adaptation to Electricity Consumers -- Role of Power Trade in Adaptation -- Combination of Robust Decision Making and Adaptive Management -- Note.