The Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) recommended in a report and policy brief issued that coastal States like Tamil Nadu and Gujarat must take steps to protect their telecom assets from natural disasters.
Key Highlights of the Report
- The report comes as natural disasters occur more frequently as a result of climate change, and critical infrastructure is endangered by these calamities.
- Telecom networks are particularly vulnerable physically, and their outage affects rescue and relief efforts across other sectors too.
- In the National and Sub-national Disaster Risk and Resilience Assessment Framework and Roadmap for the Telecommunications Sector, prepared with PwC, the CDRI writes that telecom towers should withstand wind speeds of 150 kmph to 250 kmph.
About Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI)
- The Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) is an international organization launched by the Prime Minister of India at the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit.
- It is a global partnership of 49 members dedicated to climate and disaster-resilient infrastructure solutions.
- It is a partnership of national governments, UN agencies and programmes, multilateral development banks and financing mechanisms, the private sector, and academia.
- CDRI advances the cause of climate and disaster resilient infrastructure (DRI).
- The organisation is based in New Delhi.
