Organiser: CNT Brazil
The transportation sector is a strategic pillar for global development as it enables the circulation of people, the supply of cities, the flow of production, and integration between regions. Throughout the last decade, it has been facing increasingly greater obstacles due to the rise of climate change and the multiple externalities arising from this problem. Floods, droughts, landslides, and other extreme weather events are affecting transport infrastructure, compromising the continuity of services and the safety of workers and society, and generating additional costs for companies that undermine the development of the sector.
In 2024, Brazil experienced: 270 000 recorded fire outbreaks; extreme and severe drought in more than 1,300 cities; the lowest water levels in main navigable rivers; 170 road blockages on 79 highways located solely in municipalities in the South region due to flooding; and more than 250 000 establishments were left without electric power as a result of storms in the Southeast.
Considering this scenario, this panel intends to discuss transport resilience that requires funding to prevent disasters for all modes. Techniques of adaptive engineering are essential and require significant advances through investments. In addition, the panel will present the Survey of Climate Resilience in the Transport Sector, conducted by CNT to foster adaptability by revealing impacts already experienced by transportation companies in Brazil, pointing out vulnerabilities, mapping prevention strategies, and indicating opportunities that need to be strengthened.
There is still a long way to develop systemic resilience measures for the sector. This situation reinforces the need for awareness about this topic, investments, and coordination to ensure greater capacity for response and recovery in the face of adversity.
The future of transportation depends on the ability to modernise infrastructure, adopt new technologies, implement new technologies, and, above all, integrate funding with climate resilience goals.
SPEAKERS
Bruno Batista, Senior Technical Advisor to the Presidency of Brazil National Confederation of Transport
Erica Marcos, Executive Environmental Manager of Brazil National Confederation of Transport
Radu Dinescu, President of the International Road Transport Union
Savina Carluccio, Executive Director of International Coalition for Sustainable Infrastructure
Reinaldo Fioravanti, Group Leader and Principal Specialist at Inter-American Development Bank
Danang Parikesit, Professor of Engineering Economics and Transport Policy at Universitas Gadjah Mada
