Veronika Wild

-Image by Copilot Almost everything humans have built over the last few centuries has been based on historical data about prevailing weather — river flows, rainfall, wind speeds and so on. Even in those rare instances where future conditions were anticipated and built into design, climate change is proceeding faster than expected and upgrades or rebuilds are already being forced on structures that are barely a generation old. London's Thames Barrier for example, opened in 1982, and Venice's MOSE barrier, decades in the making and only first activated in 2020, are both being deployed far more frequently than their designers anticipated and may need replacement within decades. Copenhagen's acclaimed flood prevention system, developed after devastating floods in 2011, is already being revised upward in response to updated projections. In this post we will look at how climate change is affecting critical infrastructure across a range of sectors and how we can futureproof it —...